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Title: Gone With the Wind by Margaret Mitchell, Linda Stephens ISBN: 0788789570 Publisher: Recorded Books Pub. Date: 2001 Format: Audio Cassette Volumes: 28 List Price(USD): $79.99 |
Average Customer Rating: 4.72
Rating: 5
Summary: a timeless epic
Comment: Beautiful headstrong Scarlett O'Hara is a 16-year-old belle of genteel Southern society when the Civil War breaks out. The love of her life, quiet intellectual Ashley Wilkes, turns down her offers of love and marries sweet gentle Melanie Hamilton before going to war. In a fit of vengeful passion, Scarlett accepts the marriage proposal of Melanie's brother Charles.
Thus, Melanie and Scarlett's lives are intertwined as Scarlett finds a way for them both to survive the war and all that follows. Melanie genuinely loves Scarlett as a sister, while Scarlett only takes care of Melanie so Ashley will eventually fall in love with herself instead.
Rhett Butler, a blackguard who is not exactly welcomed by good families, is Scarlett's constant gentleman caller who never once falls for her simpering flirtations, much to her anger.
Every girl has a bit of Scarlett O'Hara and Melanie Hamilton in her, and hopes she sees her Rhett Butler for what he is instead of chasing after an Ashley Wilkes. Read this book to find out why -- it has been a classic since it was first published in the 1930s!!!!
Rating: 5
Summary: TRULY A CLASSIC!
Comment: This book took my breath away ... Margaret Mitchell has painted such an unforgettable character in Scarlett 'O'Hara that even after finishing the book ,u can't decide whether to despise her / admire her ... not once in the book ,does Scarlett think an unselfish thought -her motives are always totally selfish -either for herself / for Tara -her childhood home [ which in effect is because she loves it passioantely!} --- the way she twists men around her little finger even the worldly wise & cynical Rhett Butler in the end --- the slow & inevitable change from the coquettish & beautiful 16 year old Southern Belle to the hard as nails & embittered yet still beautiful woman --- her relationship with her angel-like sister-in-law whom she loves to hate but yet ultimately fails to --- her wild passion for Ashley that destroys her judgement where men are concerned & nearly destroys her ---which when the mask finally falls is revealed as mere lust on his part & infatuation on her part --- her unrecognised till its too late love for the charming yet crude Rhett --- Only Scarlett's self- absorption remains constant...! Margaret portrays all this so beautifully & so vividly that u completely lose yourselves in the 'O 'Hara family & their trials in the war ...
& Scarlett --- the girl with the world at her feet who goes through life refusing to be true to anyone but herself & the woman she becomes so hardened by disillusionment & poverty that she starts forgetting the feminine ways essential for a true lady in those times ... she lingers in your mind long after ...& U can never really decide whether she got what she deserved/ deserved what she got...
As a hugely popular classic ,it definitely lives up to its fame ...Certainly worth a read!
Rating: 5
Summary: The best of its kind
Comment: While I admit to not being a fan of the romance genre, Mitchell's "Gone with the Wind" towers above its imitators in style and substance. Set in the Atlanta area during the Civil War era, Mitchell's story exemplifies the proper writing of historical fiction, with painstaking accuracy of language, mannerisms, and morals. The war itself is also presented as it should be presented - in full color and with all its moral ambiguity, rather than the black-and-white presentation that so often is the norm in modern discourse.
Mitchell's painting of southern culture and the all-encompassing war, however, serve only as the background for one of the most poignant love stories ever written. Following the life and loves of the willful Scarlett O'Hara, the work delves straight into the meaning and nature of love. Torn between her now-married childhood love, Ashley, and the outcast Rhett Butler, and in dogged pursuit of financial success after the devastating war, Scarlett lives a life of emotion and passion that few fictional characters have rivalled.
Though this work is quite long, it is a very easy read. The style is light and brisk, the language uncomplicated except in the heavy dialect of the blacks, and the story compelling. "Gone with the Wind" is a great book, a great movie, and perhaps the greatest love story ever told. Highly recommended.
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Title: Scarlett: The Sequel to Margaret Mitchell's Gone With the Wind by Alexandra Ripley ISBN: 0446363251 Publisher: Warner Books Pub. Date: 1992 List Price(USD): $7.99 |
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Title:Gone with the Wind ASIN: B00004RF96 Publisher: Warner Studios Pub. Date: 07 March, 2000 List Price(USD): $24.98 Comparison N/A, buy it from Amazon for $18.74 |
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Title: GONE WITH THE WIND by Herb Bridges, Terryl Boodman ISBN: 067168387X Publisher: Fireside Pub. Date: 1989 List Price(USD): $18.00 |
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Title: The Thorn Birds by Colleen McCullough ISBN: 0380018179 Publisher: Avon Pub. Date: 2003 List Price(USD): $7.99 |
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Title: The Wind Done Gone: A Novel by Alice Randall ISBN: 0618219064 Publisher: Mariner Books Pub. Date: 08 April, 2002 List Price(USD): $12.00 |
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