Gone With The Wind Book

Paperback. Pub Date :2013-01-17 Pages: 1008 Language: English Publisher: Pan Macmillan Gone with the Wind. first published in May 1936. is a romantic novel written by Margaret Mitchell. who won the Pulitzer Prize for the book in 1937 . The story is set in Clayton County. Georgia and Atlanta during the American Civil War and Reconstruction. The novel depicts the experiences of Scarlett OHara. the spoiled daughter of a well-to-do plantation owner. who must use every means at her disposal to come out of the poverty that she finds herself in after Shermans March to the Sea. The book is the source of the 1939 film of the same name.Margaret Mitchell began writing Gone with the Wind in 1926 to pass the time while recovering from an auto-crash injury that refused to heal. In April. 1935. Harold Latham of Macmillan. an editor who was looking for new fiction. read what she had written...Read More