Hardcover, 733 pages

English language

Published Nov. 8, 1964 by Macmillan Company.

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Gone With the Wind is beyond question the best known novel of the 20th century—read by untold millions and translated into 26 foreign languages. It won the Pulitzer Prize for fiction in 1937, then went on to become one of the most spectacular motion pictures of all time, with Vivian Leigh and Clark Gable immortalizing the roles of Scarlett O'Hara and Rhett Butler.

Beautiful, spoiled, scheming Scarlett, daughter of a wealthy Georgia plantation owner. arrives at woman- hood just as the Civil War sweeps away the only life she knows. After surviving the fiery destruction of Atlanta, she returns to the family plantation and struggles desperately to save her home from both the Union Army and carpet- baggers.

Loved by many men. Scarlett sets her heart on taking her first love. Ashley Wilkes, from his gentle wife—yet she is irresistibly drawn to Rhett Butler, a handsome blockade runner now wresting …

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Well, that was a wild ride, wasn't it?

I'm not sure if I was supposed to like Scarlett O'Hara. I definitely DIDN'T like her, but it's such a mammoth book, to spend all that time loathing the main character, I wondered if I was supposed to like her, at least a bit. However, she's so unspeakably selfish, never kind unless she can get something she wants by feigning kindness, and unimaginably dense about what anyone else might be thinking or feeling, never mind why. Dense, but also, utterly disinterested.

I found Rhett Butler a much more interesting character. He shares many of her quirks, but he has vastly greater understanding, compassion and potential for kindness than she does. He's a proper anti-hero - he does terrible things, but also great things, an enigma of a man, whom Scarlett would have done well to study properly, instead of skimming over him as if he was as shallow as she …

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