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# Gone with the Wind

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This article is about the book. For the article on the movie, see Gone with the Wind (movie)

Gone with the Wind is the name of a 1936 book by Margaret Mitchell, and a famous 1939 movie of the same name from Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer.

Margaret Mitchell's original book from 1936 was one of the most popular of its time. It tells the story of Scarlett O'Hara, and her adventures in the American South (and in the plantation of Tara) during the Civil War. During the book, she falls in love with Rhett Butler.

The title takes its name from the lines an Ernest Dowson poem: "I have forgot much, Cynara! gone with the wind." (This line also appears in the book.)

Critics and historians have said of its views of Confederancy and the American South before the Civil War. But it is true to the events of the time, and also has a well-written account of the fall of Atlanta in 1864.

The book won the Pulitzer Prize on May 3, 1937.

In 1991, Alexander Ripley wrote its official sequel, Scarlett. Three years later, it was made as a television miniseries.

In 2001, the copyright holders of the original book tried to stop sales of Alice Randall's The Wind Done Gone. (The book retold Mitchell's story from a slave's point of view.) The resulting lawsuit allowed the book to be published; it was seen, based on rules in the First Amendment, as a parody.

## [edit] External links

- The Story behind Margaret Mitchell's book
- Gone with the Wind at the Internet Movie Database (IMDb)
- RaveCentral: Gone with the Wind
- Greatest Movies page
- Scarlett (sequel) at the Internet Movie Database (IMDb)

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Categories: 1936 books | 1939 movies | Books by Margaret Mitchell | Drama movies | Romance movies | War movies | American Civil War

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