![]() ![]() Not just racist in a "Well, it was written in 1936 so what do you expect?" kind of way, but offensively, horribly racist even by the standards of the time in which it was written. Let's get this out of the way first: Gone With the Wind is a racist, revisionist Southern apologetic. As the lives and affairs of these absorbing characters play out against the tumult of the Civil War, Gone With the Wind reaches dramatic heights that have swept generations of fans off their feet. Behind them stand their gentler counterparts: Ashley Wilkes and Melanie Hamilton. ![]() Here are the characters that have become symbols of passion and desire: darkly handsome Rhett Butler and flirtatious Scarlett O'Hara. To date, it has been translated into 25 languages, and more than 28 million copies have been sold. Within six months of its publication in 1936, Gone With the Wind had sold a million copies. Winner of the Pulitzer Prize for Literature, Margaret Mitchell's great novel of the South is one of the most popular books ever written. ![]()
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