Margaret Mitchell's Classic Novel "Gone with the Wind"

Zsuzsanna Meszaros: It's a nice edition, hard cover, nice print.

Canada on Jan 01, 2024

Felix: Me gusta mucho la portada y cuando la tocas, sientes una sensacion como de Seda. Leer este libro con tu pareja es vivir las experiencia de los protagonistas.

Spain on Jun 26, 2023

Cliente KindleCliente Kindle: Gostei muito do livro. Foi um preço acessível pois foi no dia da bookfriday. 30% de desconto em alguns títulos de livros importados. Gostei muito da edição devido ao preço que paguei.
E é uma edição cuja capa é bonita e é um livro comum não é capa dura. Não é pocket; o tamanho é bom.
Fiquei feliz com o material.

Brazil on Oct 09, 2022

Mario Aguilera: There is a lot of details in the book that you cannot really see on the movie like the true nature of Scarlet and her motivations. Also the business part of Scarlet and Rhet is quite exciting.

Mexico on Apr 08, 2022

Dodo: Es gibt auch eine neuere Version mit Charlton Griffin als Sprecher (bei audible), doch in diesem Fall habe ich mich bewusst für die MP3 Version mit Linda Stephens entschieden, da sie den langen Roman einfach kongenial im Südstaaten-Amerikanisch (State of Georgia) interpretiert und damit die individuellen Stimmen überzeugend wiedergibt.
(Charlton Griffin hat nach meinem Eindruck eher einen texanischen Einschlag).
Hier bekommt man zudem auf jeden Fall die Urversion von Mitchell, keine "leicht modernisierte" Fassung, aus der alles sprachlich getilgt wurde, dass heutzutage nicht PC ist.
Hört man sich das Buch an (oder liest es), bemerkt man sowieso rasch, dass Mitchell keineswegs den alten Süden (der USA) glorifiziert (stattdessen bekommen die versnobten Plantagenbesitzer einige spitze Kritik ab), aber sich an dem Duktus der damaligen Zeit orientiert und auch Figuren Äußerungen in den Mund legt, die im 19. JH so realistisch waren, heute natürlich inakzeptabel sind.

Ob gelesen oder gehört, Mitchells einziges Werk ist einer der besten historischen Romane und geht weitaus intensiver auf die geschichtlichen Hintergründe und Geschehenisse vor, während und nach...

Germany on Mar 28, 2020

M. Hughes: Say what you want about political correctness (or lack thereof). It's all ridiculous anyway, because this book was written in a different age and about a different age. At its heart, this book is an intimate look at the American Civil War from a Southerner's perspective. And it's also got a whopping great (doomed) romance.

I grew up for 10 years in Chicago and then when I was nearly 11, we moved to a rural area in South Carolina. A few years later we moved to a small town in North Georgia. My father was from Philadelphia, but my mother and stepfather were Georgians. I always considered myself a hybrid, but I was the only one who thought so. Northerners ridiculed the soft drawl I picked up from my Georgian family; Southerners ridiculed my Northern speech patterns and LACK of a proper drawl. This was in the 1960s and 1970s. So tell me that nobody remembered the Civil War anymore. In both North and South a mere hundred years later, it defined a great many of my own relationships. In the North, elementary school history was all about the evil South and the the evils of slavery. When I got to the evil South--to a fully integrated school (as opposed to the totally white suburb of...

United States on Dec 06, 2015

Rhonda Elkins: When I first read Gone with the wind many years ago at age 25, I had watched the movie many times and loved it. Then when I read the book, I fell in love with it hailing it as the best book I'd ever read in my life. At that time though, I did find the in depth descriptions of the surroundings and of backgrounds of people a little tedious. Other than that, I loved it and my lifelong love of Civil War history was started right then and there. As the years went by and I read so many more books, a few years ago there began to be other books that took the title of "best book" in my eyes, always keeping that great love of GWTW in my heart. However, at age 52, I decided to read it again. It just called to me for some reason. This time, I loved it even so much more than I did then, and what I disliked about it years ago, the descriptive writing of Margaret Mitchell, is one of the things I loved about it most of all. It takes a tremendous amount of talent for a writer to totally immerse the reader into the setting they have created, when they can just see the lush beauty, the red clay, the desolation, the dying wounded, everything that was written, you lived it, smelled it, and felt it. I...

United States on Feb 02, 2013