Author: Margaret Mitchell
Genres: Classic, Historical Fiction, Romance
Age Group: 13+
Adaptation: The novel was the basis of the classic Academy Award-winning 1939 film of the same name.
Other Popular Book: Gone with the Wind is the only novel by Mitchell published during her lifetime.
ABOUT THE BOOK:
The story is set in Clayton County and Atlanta, both in Georgia, 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 Sherman’s destructive “March to the Sea”.
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OTHER INFORMATION:
A Harris poll found it to be the second favourite book of American readers, just behind the Bible. The book received the Pulitzer Prize for Fiction.
TRIGGER WARNINGS:
1. War related Violence
2. Problematic Representation
3. Sexism
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