Gone with the Wind : Annotated Edition

Author: Mitchell, Margaret

Classic fiction (pre c 1945)

Published on 29 August 2021 by Alma Books Ltd (Alma Classics) in the United Kingdom as part of 'the Alma Classics Evergreens' series.

The

pampered daughter of a wealthy Georgian plantation owner of Irish

descent,

sixteen-year-old Scarlett O’Hara soon realizes that young men can’t resist

her

charms, despite her forthright manners and her refusal to embrace her

mother’s

ladylike ways. Her romantic intrigues lead her to an early marriage, but

when the

war between the Union and the Southern States breaks out and she is left a

young

widow, Scarlett’s life is turned upside down, and she finds herself embroiled,

together with the world surrounding her, in a long struggle for

survival.

Both a coming-of-age tale and a historical epic, Gone with the Wind is

regarded as

one of the great American novels, and is perhaps one of the most popular

stories in

the Western canon. Famously inspiring the iconic 1939 Oscar-winning film

starring

Vivien Leigh as Scarlett and Clark Gable as the rakish but cynical Rhett

Butler, it is

Margaret Mitchell’s only published novel, and a living testament to the

irrepressible

resilience of the American spirit.