User Settings. Skip carousel. Carousel Previous. Carousel Next. What is Scribd? Cancel anytime. Unavailable in your country. Continue browsing Preview unavailable. Publisher: Recorded Books Audio. Released: May 12, ISBN: Format: Audiobook. Also available as Winner of the Pulitzer Prize for Literature, Margaret Mitchell's great novel of the South is one of the most popular books ever written. Within six months of its publication in , Gone With the Wind had sold a million copies.
To date, it has been translated into 25 languages, and more than 28 million copies have been sold. Here are the characters that have become symbols of passion and desire: darkly handsome Rhett Butler and flirtatious Scarlett O'Hara. Behind them stand their gentler counterparts: Ashley Wilkes and Melanie Hamilton. As the lives and affairs of these absorbing characters play out against the tumult of the Civil War, Gone With the Wind reaches dramatic heights that have swept generations of fans off their feet.
Having lived in Atlanta for many years, narrator Linda Stephens has an authentic ear for the dialects of that region. Get ready to hear Gone With the Wind exactly as it was written: every word beautifully captured in a spectacular unabridged audio production.
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With Robert Icenhauer-Ramirez Ph. Ellen F. Brown and John Wiley, Jr. The first edition of this novel was published in , and was written by Margaret Mitchell. The book was published in multiple languages including English language, consists of pages and is available in format. The main characters of this non fiction, classics story are ,.
I likewise took pleasure in Mitchell revealing the unpredictable formula in which the KKK was excited, that it had not been simply a contempt completely free darkies however a need to secure their women and kids from the rash temper now imposed on them via this new program.
Not that there are any type of redeeming qualities in the KKK, and even the Southern breakout justice by pistol shot to curb wounded satisfaction, however it was interesting to discover the wider conditions in which it developed. The whole picture of the Southern perspective from the hierarchy of servants to the contempt of the reconstruction was informing.
What everybody in the South underwent, both white and also black, after every little thing was deconstructed and also they really did not know exactly how to restore. My one problem concerning the book went to times the summary was extensive. It functioned, yet sometimes I think she can have done so in fewer words.
I see Scarlett as a representation of the South in which she enjoyed. She did not care from whence the riches came or thought that it would certainly ever end. Due to the fact that she was abundant as well as crucial, she would conquer. As the Yankees attempted to rebuild the South, fresh in their embitterment at a battle they did not wish to deal with, you can both see their reasoning as well as feel for the Southerners that were licked and after that stomped on in their attempts to get rear of their life.
You see that in Scarlett. On one hand you do not pity her as well as believe she requires a lesson in poverty as well as on the other hand you want her to survive. Either she can relax and cling to her old ways or she can devalue herself and rebuild. Survival, not morality, is her greatest drive. Oh Scarlett. We all recognize people like her. Individuals that unscrupulously use their womanly beauties to get ahead as well as carry a deep ridicule for those bound by ideas of generosity, morals, or intelligence and also most especially for those who see them wherefore they are instead of being controlled.
Individuals that take care of no one but themselves as well as who discover pleasure in life not in what they have, but in conquering the unattainable that is only desirable because it is out of reach.
A superb picture of the destruction of character. Originally I assumed she was the only personality that had not been growing, in fact digressing.
However by the end she does grow up. In no regard is this above in her ultimate need to be a mom.
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