Gone with the Wind

margaret mitchell

Scarlett O'Hara, the beautiful, spoiled daughter of a well-to-do Georgia plantation owner, must use every means at her disposal to claw her way out of the poverty she finds herself in after Sherman's March to the Sea.

Genres classicshistorical fictionfictionromancehistoricalliteraturewarcivil warnovelshistorical romance

1037 pages, Mass Market Paperback

First published June 30,1936

Series

Gone with the Wind

Literary awards

pulitzer prize, national book award,

Places

atlanta georgia, georgia,

This edition

Format: 1037 pages, Mass Market Paperback
Published: August 1, 1993 by Warner Books
ISBN: 9780446365383
ASIN: 0446365386
Language: English

Characters More characters

Scarlett Ohara

Katie Scarlett, or Scarlett as everyone but her father calls her (she is named for his mother, chapter 2, Gone With the Wind) has dark hair and a slim frame. She is an atypical protagonist, especially as a female romantic lead in fiction. When the novel o...
Rhett Butler

In the beginning of the novel, we first meet Rhett at the Twelve Oaks Plantation barbecue, the home of John Wilkes and his son Ashley and daughters Honey and India Wilkes. The novel describes Rhett as "a visitor from Charleston;" a black sheep, who was ex...
Ashley Wilkes

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Melanie Hamilton Wilkes

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Wade Hampton Hamilton

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Ella Lorena Kennedy

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