— National Book Awards (1936), Pulitzer Prize (1937)
Set during the American Civil War and Reconstruction era, Scarlett O’Hara fights to preserve her family’s legacy and navigate love, loss, and survival in the South. Her fierce determination and complex relationship with Rhett Butler reveal the strength and flaws of human ambition. Margaret Mitchell’s Gone with the Wind is an epic tale of resilience, passion, and the transformation of a world torn apart by change.
Date: 1936 (United States)
Length: ~1037 pages (varies by edition)
Cultural impact: ~30.000.000 copies (estimates)
Genre: Historical Fiction, Romance
"One of the great American epics, unforgettable in scope and character" — Stephen King, bestselling author
"Mitchell's storytelling has a relentless drive... a study in character and circumstance" — Hilary Mantel, Booker Prize-winning novelist
"A monumental work of the Southern imagination" — Harold Bloom, preeminent literary critic
"Vivid, compelling... a novel of exceptional narrative power" — Eudora Welty, Pulitzer Prize-winning Southern author
"A story of love and war, brilliantly realized" — The New York Times
"Mitchell created characters that linger in memory like living beings" — Toni Morrison, Nobel Prize-winning novelist
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