Gone with the Wind by Margaret Mitchell (Epub)

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Margaret Mitchell’s epic novel of love and war won the Pulitzer Prize and went on to give rise to two authorized sequels and one of the most popular and celebrated movies of all time.

Many novels have been written about the Civil War and its aftermath. None take us into the burning fields and cities of the American South as Gone With the Wind does, creating haunting scenes and thrilling portraits of characters so vivid that we remember their words and feel their fear and hunger for the rest of our lives.

In the two main characters, the white-shouldered, irresistible Scarlett and the flashy, contemptuous Rhett, Margaret Mitchell not only conveyed a timeless story of survival under the harshest of circumstances, she also created two of the most famous lovers in the English-speaking world since Romeo and Juliet.

User’s Reviews

“Beyond a doubt one of the most remarkable first novels produced by an American writer. It is also one of the best.” — The New York Times”The best novel to have ever come out of the South…it is unsurpassed in the whole of American writing.” — The Washington Post”Fascinating and unforgettable! A remarkable book, a spectacular book, a book that will not be forgotten!” — Chicago Tribune”Gone with the Wind is one of those rare books that we never forget. We read it when we’re young and fall in love with the characters, then we watch the film and read the book again and watch the film again and never get tired of revisiting an era that is the most important in our history. Rhett and Scarlet and Melanie and Ashley and Big Sam and Mammy and Archie the convict are characters who always remain with us, in the same way that Twain’s characters do. No one ever forgets the scene when Scarlet wanders among the wounded in the Atlanta train yard; no one ever forgets the moment Melanie and Scarlet drag the body of the dead Federal soldier down the staircase, a step at a time. Gone with the Wind is an epic story. Anyone who has not read it has missed one of the greatest literary experiences a reader can have.” — James Lee Burke, bestselling author of The Tin Roof Blowdown “I first read Gone with the Wind in grade school–a boy of the upper South who’d seen the great movie and felt compelled to learn what lay behind it, all thousand-plus pages worth. No page disappointed me. What other American novel surpasses its eagerness to tell a great story of love and war; what characters equal the cantankerous passions of Scarlett and Rhett? Even Scott Fitzgerald spoke well of it. What more could I ask, even seven decades later?” — Reynolds Price”In my own personal life, I find many similarities to Scarlett’s: The whole 17-inch waist thing notwithstanding, I do love a barbecue, both for the food and the men–I have been known to “eat like a field hand and gobble like a hawg”–I admit that at least on one occasion I may have feigned interest in some guy to further my own interests–I have fought tooth, toenail and tirelessly for my family–I learn slow but I learn good–and even so, I still adore the prospect of dealing with most things…Tomorrow.” — Jill Conner Browne, The Sweet Potato Queen, bestselling author of The Sweet Potato Queens’ First Big-Ass Novel”In 1936 I was in E.M. Daggett Junior High in Ft. Worth, Texas. By some chance I was able to read Gone with the Wind early on. Then and now, I found it one of the great experiences of a young life. I still list it as one of my 10 favorite books.” — Liz Smith, nationally syndicated columnist”Not just a great love story, Gone with the Wind is one of the most powerful anti-war novels ever written. Told from the standpoint of the women left behind, author Margaret Mitchell brilliantly illustrates the heartbreaking and devastating effects of war on the land and its people.” — Fannie Flagg, Academy Award nominated-author”Let’s say you’ve read Gone with the Wind at least twice, and seen the movie over and again. So, here’s a thought. Buy this handsome paperback edition, just for Pat Conroy’s preface. This passionate, nearly breathless love letter is a Song of Solomon to Margaret Mitchell, Scarlett O’Hara, and Conroy’s beautiful, GTW-obsessed mother. Indeed, his luminous preface packs a durable wallop, just like the epic Pulitzer prize-winning work that inspires it.” — Jan Karon, author of The Mitford Years series”GWTW is an indelible portrait of a unique time and place, American’s greatest political and moral conflict, and the myths that surround it — an all absorbing spectacle of a read even for postmodern readers. Mitchell vividly portrays the disillusionment and devastation of war, the ignorance of the uninitiated, and the transformation of arrogance into tenacity that shaped the first “new South.” All the details of history and place come together as a rich backdrop for those unforgettable characters: shallow and selfish Scarlett, sincere Melanie, moony-eyed Ashley, and the sage, pragmatic, dashing, and rakish Rhett Butler–the most enduring heartthrob of American literature has produced. I’d reread the book for the thrill of Rhett alone!” — Darnell Arnoult, author of Sufficient Grace”For sheer readability I can think of nothing it must give way before. Miss Mitchell proves herself a staggeringly gifted storyteller.” –The New Yorker

Reviews from Amazon users, collected at the time the book is getting published on UniedVRG. It can be related to shiping or paper quality instead of the book content:

⭐ I’m not the biggest reader of fiction but I could not put this book down. I’m big history, and biography reader. This book has history in it…it lets you know how the people of the south lived before, during and after the war. It’s a love story, tragedy, it’s about perseverance.I finished it two weeks ago and I want to read it again. I’ve seen the movie about a hundred times in my life….I watched the movie again as soon as I finished the book and it made the movie much better. As you watch you’ll understand more about each character, especially Rhett Butler. I think he’s my favorite character..As time goes by history changes, it shouldn’t but it does. It’s weird timing that I chose to read this book. Coronavirus had me out of work for five weeks, and there’s no way I was gonna be locked at home watching horrible media talking about this virus. I woke up yesterday to find out that people want to ban this book, and the movie has been pulled off HBO streaming service. The good news however is the movie is number one on Amazon and iTunes as of today. God Bless America.America has a cemetery where confederate soldiers are buried side by side with union soldiers. I think it was meant to show solidarity, forgiveness and also to never forget what it was about. We have elected leaders that want to destroy the cemetery… they never gave it a thought in their lives but I guess they’ll destroy anything if they think it could give them one extra vote. Nothing has changed since the civil war. The North came down south after the war in what they called reconstruction. They pushed for freed black men to vote while ex confederate men couldn’t. They didn’t care about healing, they cared about power. They wanted republicans to hold office in the south. They fixed elections and got rich by the results. Did the North care about slavery? I’m sure some did in their hearts, but they also took advantage of the situation.When someone writes a book about fictional characters during a historical event they usually do research to make sure the surroundings around the characters are accurate. From what I’ve studied about the civil war, this book nails it while also giving us one of the best fictional story of all time. It gave us Scarlett O’Hara… every American needs to read this book not ban it.

⭐ Who would have thought that a 1037-page, 80-year-old novel about a spoiled, petulant teenager in petticoats would completely suck me in, and turn out to be one of the greatest novels of all time?Everything about this book is beyond superlative–vivid characters, settings that live and breathe, but especially Margaret Mitchell’s prose. It would be worthwhile for any writer to study her sentences, every one of which flows with living motion, without a single flowery word. The dialogues between Scarlett and Rhett make sparks fly off the pages!One could criticize the liberal use of racially offensive terms and the portrayal of happy slaves, but I would disagree. Within the world so meticulously created by the author, a bygone world, for all its faults, that was seen as being in equilibrium before its downfall, to have done otherwise would have been false.This is truly the Great American Novel, in the top 5 of the greatest books I’ve ever read, and I suggest that you will thank yourself for reading it. My only regret about finishing Gone With the Wind is that now I can never again read it for the first time.

⭐ I have read this book many times. I have worn out 2 or 3 copies. Finally bought a digital version and it’s kind of disappointing. The transcription leaves a bit to be desired. There are misspelling and punctuation errors. One glaring example is that poor Hetty’s name changes from Hetty, to Betty and even Hefty! I think a better job of transcribing this book could have been done. I am not that far into the book and I have found several errors.

⭐ Hoo boy, this is a hard one to describe. I should point out that I’m from Atlanta born and raised and read this book multiple times as a kid and LOVED it. But re-reading it as an adult it’s really hard to get past the egregious and inescapable racism that permeates it. On the one hand the main story is a good one, well written and well told. Scarlett is a great character, a true female antihero who’s complex and maddening and very human. Margaret Mitchell has a gift for characterization and story telling and the writing is generally fantastic.BUTBut it’s un-apologetically racist, the characterizations of the non-white parties are cringe-inducing and as a rational adult it’s hard to swallow the book’s smug assurance that most slaves were happy, that Reconstruction was tyranny and that the white landowners of the antebellum South were the true victims of the Civil War. As a young white bookworm with liberal parents who was anxious to believe that racism and civil rights issues were a thing of the past I was able to forgive these flaws but now in this racially charged day of deep income and racial inequality it’s a lot harder to just ignore that side of the novel.On the other hand is it unjustifiably written off as fluff because of its female author in a way that, say, Rudyard Kipling and Mark Twain novels are not? Yes I believe it is. Is it feminist? I think a case can be made for that too. But as for how many stars to give it I need multiple categories. For racism it gets zero stars, for a well told love story that ponders the complexity of female friendships as well as the nature of desire and the ways we lie to ourselves in the name of love it gets five. Beyond that and regarding its place in the literary canon, I am unqualified to say.

⭐ I bought this book after reading a politically correct rant in a magazine by someone who thought it was high time that the book should be shunned or even banned. In general, I tend to think that anything that people want to ban should be immediately and strongly supported for free speech reasons, if nothing else, but I did not necessarily have high expectations for the book. I assumed it would be a low/middlebrow, well written historical romance, but not much more than that. I was way wrong. Its a great novel on many levels: plot, characterization, narrative flow, and effective advocacy and support for a vanquished way of life (Mitchell does not pretend to be objective; she is fighting a rear guard action to defend the South she loved against the judgment of history; the reason she infuriated liberal critics from the moment the book was published to the present day was because she fought that action so effectively in this book.). Of course, her view of the institution of slavery was disingenuous (at best), but, on the other hand, her bitter attacks on the carpetbaggers and speculators during the reconstruction era certainly ring true. But the politics of the book are not the elements that make it great; it is the portrayal of an era and the way she makes you care about the events, characters, and land that make up Scarlett O’Hara’s worldThis novel is the second greatest selling book of all time (the Bible is first), and I can now see why it has maintained its extraordinary popularity for 75 years. That popularity was, and is, well deserved.

⭐ One thing about a good book is that once it grips you, you just keeping on turning the pages oblivious of how many they are. I call it, the book fever that grips you and does not stop until you get to the end of it, bringing with it the sweet satisfaction, yet the yearning for more. “Gone with the Wind” counts as one of such books I have read. I could add “War and Peace, Disciples of Fortune”, and Quiet Flows the Don” for now.I first read this great American classic thirty years ago, watched the movie shortly after that, liked them both, but lost some elements of the story over the decades. So, a decision to read it again was one of the best things I ever did. It is a story full of rich, fluid and amazing descriptions that not only give depth to the characters that are themselves full of life and multiple dimensions, but also give greater credence to the plot, the true to life history around which the story is told and the settings that are so colorful. In fact, the story takes you to the complicated times of war, interwoven with love, loyalty, betrayal, friendship, kinship, patriotism and other extreme emotions that haunt man in his quest to be exclusive.All in all, this is a fantastic book and deserves its place among America’s top works of literature and fiction, and one of the best known classic books in the world. There aren’t that many books of old that transport us to the times of their settings and leave us with the feeling that we understand what transpired at the time.

⭐ Mitchell has my upmost respect. Her protagonist finds a way to resonate with us all, whether it be through her tenacity, shrewdness, petulance, or her survival instinct.Habitually deemed as a romance, “Gone with the Wind” is anything but. Despite her insistence that society not seeing her as she truly is, Scarlett finally sees that she is misunderstood as tragically as she misunderstood herself. Love becomes something that is withheld from her reach and her charms fall flat when faced with the tragedy of the old south.Scarlett, the epitome of strength and survival, falls short when faced with the true meaning of love and sacirifice. She warms her heart with pride and wealth—both of which she grasps tightly in the face of the reconstruction and poverty. She earns the love and respect of few, and scorns everyone around her in turn.Mitchell cunningly uses a third-person limited point of view to charm her readers. Through Scarlett’s eyes, we mourn the loss of the Confederacy and fear the invasion of the Yankees—despite our own political and moral views.Mitchell wields the sharp weapon of psychic distance and pulls her readers in with a violent curiosity and leaves them with a desolate feeling of loss.Highly recommmeded.

⭐ This is one of the most amazing books I have ever read. I am an avid reader but I have admittedly neglected reading many of the “classics” and for whatever reason I was drawn to this book. I live in a small town in the south east and I know the current Atlanta fairly well, so for me, this book brought to life the rich history of my home. But it did so from the perspective of the women left to carry the burden of the civil war at home and being a girl the same age Scarlett is in the end (28) she resonates with me on a serious level lol.This book is considerably longer than my typical read and most modern books I come across so if you are going to read it, be prepared to make a commitment to finish it. Although this isn’t a book you’ll have to push yourself through in any fashion. It’s impeccably written and because of it’s length I became so invested in these characters that by the end I was literally sobbing. This is one of those books that is less about the story ending with everything tied up into a finish. It’s more about this group of characters and their relationships with each other. It’s a story of war time and struggle, yes but also a story of days gone by and a point and time that was put to death in one war torn night. Absolutely worthy of every ounce of praise and so much more.I consider a good read to be, character’s that stay with me even after I have finished reading it and this is one of those books.

⭐ The edition of “Gone with the Wind” that arrived today was not what I expected at all. The only thing written in English was the title and Beijing Institute of Technology Press. The book is only about 1/2 inch thick, which is nowhere near the 2.5 inch paperback book I remember reading years ago. It was shrink wrapped and I did not open that packaging because I knew I was sending it right back. The product description even said it was in English, but that’s just not true.

⭐ Margaret Mitchell grew up listening to stories about the south before, during, and after the Civil War, from people who actually lived during those times and didn’t just study them. It doesn’t glorify slavery, or the south’s use of slaves before the civil war. It simply tells a fictional story based on that time in our history. It’s better than the movie which due to time constraints had to leave out a great deal of the book (including Scarlett’s other two children) Scarlett is the ultimate survivor, using all means available to her at the time to save her life and her home. It’s a classic that I fear will be forever banished due to censorship, read it while you can.

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