Gone With the Wind
by Margaret Mitchell
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Author: Margaret MitchellEdition: Hardcover
Format: Bargain Price
Published: 1936-09-01
ISBN: 1135826595
Number of pages: 1048
Publisher: The Macmillan Company
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Book Review: You reap what you sow
Summary: 4 Stars
Selfish, sought after, sixteen-year-old Katie "Scarlett" O'Hara has everything a Southern Belle could want as the story begins in April of 1861: a loving family; a plethora of attentive suitors, and a lovely home on a plantation situated 25 miles from Atlanta, Georgia, maintained by the family's (p 279) hundred slaves. She soon learns that the primary object of her affections, Ashley Wilkes, is to about to announce his engagement. And before you know it, she has professed her love to one man, encountered another (Rhett Butler) for the first time, become engaged, married, pregnant and widowed. Meanwhile, most of the local males have become Confederate soldiers, battling on the side of the South in the Civil War. As the locals mourn their dead and the battles rage on, Scarlett chooses to return to Tara. After surviving a harrowing journey, she learns the fate of her family and home, and takes on roles of caregiver, operations manager, and manual laborer for the plantation along with its remaining inhabitants. She marries, again with ulterior motives, and moves to Atlanta, where her behavior as sole businesswoman starts tongues wagging. One wonders, will she ever find love?
When the story ends, twelve years later, the war is over and many of her loved ones have passed. While she learns a few things about friendship, family, love, and loss, some things never change, like her feelings (contempt and disdain) about slaves and beliefs about slavery (better for them than their freedom). With its racist rhetoric, negative stereotypes, and inflammatory words for blacks (the "n" word alone appears ninety times), it is a lesson on the incomprehensible capacity of humans to justify their infliction of suffering on others and will likely cause many readers to squirm. But it is also a masterful epic on life and love in the South during the Civil War, with great character development and spectacular writing (including some neat old, odd words) which make it a worthy read from start to 700-plus page finish.
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Spoiled Southern belle Scarlett O'Hara never stops loving the married Ashley Wilkes even as she faces the hardships of life during the Civil War and the changes brought about by Reconstruction. Reprint.Classics Books
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