Gone with the Wind
by Margaret Mitchell
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Author: Margaret MitchellEdition: Paperback
Audio: English (Unknown); English (Original Language); English (Published)
Published: 1999-04-01
ISBN: 0446675539
Number of pages: 1056
Publisher: Grand Central Publishing
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Summary: 5 Stars
This book was very well written. It was a classic. I was intrigued at how well Margaret Mitchell spun this story together. Scarlett was a character that had so many different characteristics about her than I doubted it would ever end. You meet Scarlett O'Hara in Tara and soon you find out of her passionate love for Ashley Wilkes. War is declared on the South and Ashley marries his cousin Melanie Wilkes. Scarlett becomes jealous and as a way to get back at him she marries Melanie's own brother, Charles Wilkes. Charles and Ashley go to war leaving Melanie in Atlanta and Scarlett in Tara. Shortly after Scarlett gets a telegram informing her of her husbands death. She is desperate to get out of black widow's clothes. She goes to Atlanta to stay with her Aunt Pittypat while she tries to get used to wearing all black and never dancing. There they meet Rhett Butler for the first time. Soon Scarlett realizes shes pregrant with her dead husbands baby. Scarlett has the baby fine with no troubles. The Southern army passes through Atlanta and Ashley visits Scarlett and Melanie. Melanie gets pregnant. Nine months pass by and Melanie is deathly ill and is going to have the baby shortly. Siege is laid on Atlanta while the baby is near coming. Scarlett is forced to deliver the baby for all the doctors were busy with wounded soldiers. Scarlett takes charge and Melanie, Scarlett, Beau(The newborn), and Scarlett's child all flee to Tara. After a ravaging journey Scarlett makes it safely. After Scarlett sets up Tara to running again her and Melanie go to Atlanta once more. Ashley returns and Scarlett decides to marry her sister's bethrothed, Frank Kennedy, for his money. She uses his money to keep Tara running and she starts her own Lumber mill, something unheard of before this time, a woman working was taboo. Her husband and Ashley go to a Klu Klux Klan meeting and Ashley gets shot and Frank dies by a bullet to his head. Rhett goes and gets Ashley and saves him from the Northern army by pretending that Ashley had been visiting Belle Watlings house of 'ill repute'. Rhett proposes to Scarlett and they visit New Orleans and many places. Scarlett is happy. Then she has a baby girl who Rhett dotes on. Scarlett and Rhett fight a lot over silly things and then Rhett lets the girl jump with her horse and she falls, breaks her neck, and dies instantly. Rhett and Scarlett fight and Rhett comes home drunk one night and they have a few 'passionate' moments and Rhett leaves for good. He comes back and Scarlett tells him shes pregnant. He says rude things and she lunges for him, misses and falls down some stairs. She has a miscarriage and Rhett leaves with his famous line. "Frankly my dear, I dont give a damn,".
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A monumental classic considered by many to be not only the greatest love story ever written, but also the greatest Civil War saga.Classics Books
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