World Classics Selection - Gone With the Wind (Volumes 1, 2, and 3)

Author: Margaret Mitchell (USA) translated by He Duoquan
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Publish Date: 2002-08-01
Features: The novel was a sensation worldwide upon its release, with its successful character development being the most captivating aspect that had readers hooked. Gone with the Wind – translated as Love in the Time of War – is a story set during the American Civil War and the subsequent reconstruction period. The headstrong 17-year-old daughter of a plantation owner, Scarlett O'Hara, desires to conquer all men. When her secret crush Ashley and his cousin Melanie get engaged, Scarlett hastily marries Ashley's younger brother Charles. The Civil War erupts, and the two men go to war for two months before Charles dies. The two women move to Scarlett's aunt's house in Atlanta. At a fundraising ball, Scarlett meets Captain Rhett Butler, and when Union troops arrive, she is helped by Rhett to return to her hometown of Tara. However, her father goes mad, her mother dies, and the slaves escape. After the war ends, prisoners of war return home, and Scarlett tenaciously rebuilds her life. Out of greed for money and property, she appropriates her younger sister's fiancé, Frank. But Frank cannot tolerate her stubbornness and joins the KKK, losing his life in the process. In her grief, Rhett appears and proposes to her. Their four-year-old daughter dies after a horse accident, but Scarlett remains resilient, firmly believing that "tomorrow will be better."