Gone With the Wind
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Book Summary Author: Margaret Mitchell Edition: Hardcover Format: Bargain Price Published: 1936-09-01 ISBN: 1135826595 Number of pages: 1048 Publisher: The Macmillan Company |
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Book Reviews of the Gone With the Wind
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Summary: 4 Stars
Remembering when this book, "Gone With The Wind", first came out, my mother told me that my her brother, a doctor from Montreal Canada, who had settled in the USA, had read it all the way through, finding it compulsively readable. Years and years, (and years!), later, on the 50th Anniverary of GWTW, (the movie, I think), TV GUIDE ran two -- or perhaps it was three -- articles on this book / movie phenomenon. One was a general overview of the movie, and comments from surviving leading players. The other two were equally as fascinating: one was written by a White woman, the other, by a Black man.
The White woman said that the value she had gotten from this book was that she had learnt from it, to withstand any hardship, no matter how great.
The Black man said that he had been SO ashamed to buy this book. As much ashamed as he would have been, had he bought a pornography book! After reading it, he opined that it did NOT focus on the cruelty, pain, and degradation of slavery, but instead on a woman in love with another woman's financee and later, husband. He compared the book to a hypothetical novel set in World War II, wherein a Nazi officer, a guard in a concentration camp, was having a romance with a secretary. The pain and suffering of so many people, all around them, is all but ignored, in this hypothetical book, as all the attention is on the two lovers. Obviously, the Black gentleman who wrote this article for TV Guide did not like GWTW at all....
I think it's important to keep BOTH viewpoints in mind. Because both are very accurate, and both speak volumes about the meaning of "Gone With The Wind".