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Gone with the wind, Margaret Mitchell (33 million copies sold)

Gone with the Wind is a novel written by Margaret Mitchell, an American writer. It was published in 1936 and is one of the best-selling works in history, with 33 million copies.

Its film adaptation also made it an icon of contemporary culture. In short: it is one of the world’s favorite romance novels.

It ranks second only to the Bible among Americans’ all-time favorite books.

In addition, the novel is the subject of study at prestigious universities in the United States and was awarded the Pulitzer Prize for Fiction in 1937.

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What is “Gone with the wind” about?

Gone with the Wind is one of the most sweeping stories of all time. In this novel, war, murder, famine, rape and slavery converge during the American Civil War.

However, Mitchell’s merit is to have managed to perfectly recreate the hostility of the time, and to include “optimistic love” as a differentiating element in the tragedy.

It is a novel that could be classified as historical, but the sentimental depth that the author imprints on it adds a romantic and dramatic character to the work.

The story revolves around the personal conflicts and struggles of Scarlett O’Hara, a Southern woman whose journey is filled with hardships, such as the unfulfilled love of the man she loves.

O’Hara is the perfect representation of the phrase “don’t go back to the past” and the human nature of clinging to hope to overcome any problem.

About Margaret Mitchell

Born in the city of Atlanta, Margaret Mitchell is one of the most important authors of American literature produced before World War II.

Her most successful novel of love was Gone with the Wind, which became a worldwide literary classic and one of the literary exemplary with the greatest impact in its film version.

She grew up in a family of storytellers, who were in charge of showing her the American Civil War through first-hand accounts.

She was an active woman, a lover of the countryside and horses, a voracious reader and a disciplined writer. Between 1922 and 1925, the writer married a couple of times.

She was a reporter for the Atlanta Journal Sunday Magazine, a job she gave up because of an ankle injury due to arthritis.

She died after being run over by a truck at the age of 49, when she was crossing an Atlanta street with her husband.

After the success of Gone with the Wind, Mitchell did not write any other notable work, except for some newspaper articles.