Gone with the Wind (Volume 1 and 2)

Author: Margaret Mitchell
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Publish Date: 2002-03-01
Features: Gone with the Wind is considered one of the most classic love stories in history, and the film starring Vivien Leigh and Clark Gable has also become one of the most famous and unparalleled love movie classics in film history. Set against the backdrop of the American Civil War, the novel's main storyline revolves around the fiercely independent and willful Scarlett O'Hara, who becomes entangled in love and rivalry with several men, accompanied by significant social and historical changes and the irreversible loss of the familiar world of the past. Gone with the Wind is not only a finale to human love but also a grand historical reflecting profound changes in social, political, economic, and moral aspects. This renowned novel won the Pulitzer Prize upon its publication in 1936. The film adaptation, produced by Warner Bros. in 1939 and starring Clark Gable and Vivien Leigh as the leads, won ten Oscars including Best Picture, Best Director, and Best Actress. The story is set in Georgia during the American Civil War. Scarlett O'Hara, the daughter of Tara's owner Gerald O'Hara, is a fiercely independent and willful girl who loves Ashley Wilkes. Upon learning that Ashley is to marry Melanie Hamilton, she marrys Ashley's brother Charles in anger. Charles dies shortly after in the war. After the Civil War ends, Scarlett manages Tara herself, achieves economic independence, and later marries Frank Kennedy, running a timber business together. She also forces Ashley to become the manager of one of her timber mills. Frank dies in an accident, and at the age of 27, Scarlett marries Rhett Butler, who has become wealthy from arms trading. However, she remains obsessed with Ashley, destroying the love between them, and Rhett eventually leaves her. It is only after Melanie's death and Ashley's rejection of her sympathy that Scarlett realizes that Rhett, who shares her fiery nature, is the man she truly loves.