Gone with the Wind
Mitchell, Margaret
Language: English | Category: Novel (Romance) | Audio Book: Not Available
Gone with the Wind is a novel written by Margaret Mitchell, first published in 1936. The story is set in Clayton County, Georgia, and Atlanta during the American Civil War and Reconstruction era. It depicts the experiences of Scarlett O’Hara, the spoiled daughter of a well-to-do plantation owner, who must use every means at her disposal to come out of the poverty she finds herself in after Sherman’s March to the Sea. A historical novel, the story is a Bildungsroman or coming-of-age story, with the title taken from a poem written by Ernest Dowson.
Gone with the Wind was popular with American readers from the onset and was the top American fiction bestseller in the year it was published and in 1937. As of 2014, a Harris poll found it to be the second favorite book by American readers, just behind the Bible. More than 30 million copies have been printed worldwide.
Mitchell received the Pulitzer Prize for Fiction for the book in 1937. It was adapted into a 1939 American film. The book is often read or misread through the film. Gone with the Wind is the only novel by Mitchell published during her lifetime.
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Mitchell, Margaret - Gone with the Wind -
Language: English, Novel - Format: iSilo
Gone with the Wind is a novel written by Margaret Mitchell, first published in 1936. The story is set in Clayton County, Georgia, and Atlanta during the American Civil War and Reconstruction era. It depicts the experiences of (More) Scarlett O'Hara, the spoiled daughter of a well-to-do plantation owner, who must use every means at her disposal to come out of the poverty she finds herself in after Sherman's March to the Sea. A historical novel, the story is a Bildungsroman or coming-of-age story, with the title taken from a poem written by Ernest Dowson.
Gone with the Wind was popular with American readers from the onset and was the top American fiction bestseller in the year it was published and in 1937. As of 2014, a Harris poll found it to be the second favorite book by American readers, just behind the Bible. More than 30 million copies have been printed worldwide.
Mitchell received the Pulitzer Prize for Fiction for the book in 1937. It was adapted into a 1939 American film. The book is often read or misread through the film. Gone with the Wind is the only novel by Mitchell published during her lifetime. |
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Mitchell, Margaret - Lo que el viento se llevó -
Language: Spanish, Novel - Format: ePub, iSilo
Lo que el viento se llevó (en inglés: Gone with the Wind) es una novela escrita por la autora Margaret Mitchell; es uno de los libros más vendidos de la historia, un clásico de la literatura de los Estados Unidos y debido a su (More) adaptación al cine es uno de los más grandes iconos o mitos de la cultura popular contemporánea.
La autora Margaret Mitchell era una periodista de la ciudad de Atlanta, en el Estado de Georgia (una de las primeras mujeres que tuvo una columna en un diario importante del Sur de los Estados Unidos); estando en cama debido a una fractura de tobillo, Mitchell comenzó a escribir lo que más tarde sería la novela de Lo que el viento se llevó. En 1929 con su tobillo sanado y la mayor parte del voluminoso libro escrito, Mitchell perdió interés en sus esfuerzos literarios.
Sin embargo, años después, en 1935, el editor Harold Macmillan Latham visitó la ciudad de Atlanta buscando nuevos escritores prometedores y entró en contacto con Mitchell gracias a Lois Cole, una amiga de ella que había trabajado para él. Encantado con Mitchell, el editor le pidió que le hiciera llegar a él cualquier libro que ella escribiera; aunque al principio ella no pensaba entregarle el manuscrito de “Lo que el viento se llevó”, finalmente lo hizo espoleada por un comentario de un amigo de ella que se burlaba de la posibilidad de que pudiera escribir un libro. Macmillan tuvo que comprar una maleta extra para llevar en su equipaje el gigantesco manuscrito; después de su partida Mitchell se arrepintió y le pidió por un telegrama que le devolviera el escrito, pero ya el empresario editorial estaba enganchado por lo que había leído y pensaba que sería un éxito. Luego de consultar con el Jefe del Departamento de Literatura en Inglés de la Universidad de Columbia, Macmillan Latham le envió a Mitchell un cheque como anticipo del pago por los derechos de autor y la comprometió a completar la obra (no había escrito el primer capítulo); Mitchell terminó la novela en marzo de 1936.
Finalmente la novela se publicó en su primera edición el 30 de junio de 1936. |
