Gone with the Wind de Margaret Mitchell

Gone with the Wind

Margaret Mitchell

Gone with the Wind takes place during the American Civil War and Reconstruction Era. It depicts the struggles of young Scarlett O'Hara, the spoiled daughter of a well-to-do plantation owner, who must use every means at her disposal to claw her way out of poverty following the destruction of the Civil War. Scarlett lives through an extreme reversal of fortune and wealth, as she searches for love and happiness. Gone with the Wind was popular with American readers from the outset and was the top American fiction bestseller in 1936 and 1937. As of 2014, a Harris poll found it to be the second favorite book of American readers, just behind the Bible. More than 30 million copies have been printed worldwide. Mitchell received the Pulitzer Prize for Fiction for the novel in 1937.

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Paperback (5)	50^.02 lei 3-5 săpt.	+27^.91 lei 4-10 zile
Alma Books COMMIS – 28 aug 2021	50^.02 lei 3-5 săpt.	+27^.91 lei 4-10 zile
Pan Macmillan – 2023	56^.86 lei 3-5 săpt.	+47^.10 lei 4-10 zile
Vintage Publishing – 2 ian 2020	68^.05 lei 24-35 zile	+37^.08 lei 4-10 zile
Scribner – 30 apr 2011	160^.65 lei 3-5 săpt.
Inkflight – 2020	416^.22 lei 38-44 zile
Hardback (1)	217^.57 lei 3-5 săpt.	+81^.14 lei 4-10 zile
Scribner – 31 aug 1936	217^.57 lei 3-5 săpt.	+81^.14 lei 4-10 zile

Notă biografică

Margaret Munnerlyn Mitchell (November 8, 1900 - August 16, 1949) was an American novelist, and journalist. Mitchell wrote only one novel, published during her lifetime, the American Civil War-era novel Gone with the Wind, for which she won the National Book Award for Most Distinguished Novel of 1936 and the Pulitzer Prize for Fiction in 1937. In more recent years, a collection of Mitchell's girlhood writings and a novella she wrote as a teenager, Lost Laysen, have been published. A collection of articles written by Mitchell for The Atlanta Journal was republished in book form. In May 1926, after Mitchell had left her job at the Atlanta Journal and was recovering at home from her ankle injury, she wrote a society column for the Sunday Magazine, "Elizabeth Bennet's Gossip", which she continued to write until August. Meanwhile, her husband was growing weary of lugging armloads of books home from the library to keep his wife's mind occupied while she recovered from a slow-healing auto-crash injury; he emphatically suggested that she write her own book instead. To aid her in her literary endeavors, John Marsh brought home a Remington Portable No. 3 typewriter (c. 1928). For the next three years Mitchell worked exclusively on writing a Civil War-era novel whose heroine was named Pansy O'Hara (prior to Gone with the Wind's publication Pansy was changed to Scarlett). She used parts of the manuscript to prop up a wobbly couch. Margaret Mitchell was struck by a speeding automobile as she crossed Peachtree Street at 13th Street in Atlanta with her husband, John Marsh, while on her way to see the movie A Canterbury Tale on the evening of August 11, 1949. She died at age 48 at Grady Hospital five days later on August 16 without fully regaining consciousness.