<p>The pampered daughter of a wealthy Georgian plantation owner of Irish descent,<br /> sixteen-year-old Scarlett O'Hara soon realizes that young men can't resist her<br /> charms, despite her forthright manners and her refusal to embrace her mother's<br /> ladylike ways. Her romantic intrigues lead her to an early marriage, but when the<br /> war between the Union and the Southern States breaks out and she is left a young<br /> widow, Scarlett's life is turned upside down, and she finds herself embroiled,<br /> together with the world surrounding her, in a long struggle for survival.<br /> Both a coming-of-age tale and a historical epic, Gone with the Wind is regarded as<br /> one of the great American novels, and is perhaps one of the most popular stories in<br /> the Western canon. Famously inspiring the iconic 1939 Oscar-winning film starring<br /> Vivien Leigh as Scarlett and Clark Gable as the rakish but cynical Rhett Butler, it is<br /> Margaret Mitchell's only published novel, and a living testament to the irrepressible<br /> resilience of the American spirit.</p>
Paperback / softback | 864 pages | Published August 2021
