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None take us into the burning fields and cities of the american south as gone with the wind does, creating haunting scenes and thrilling portraits of characters so vivid that we remember their words and feel their fear and hunger for the rest of our lives. Good for one or maybe two reads and then the spine will be gone and the book will fall apart. The result was gone with the wind, first published in 1936. Gone with the wind is a novel by margaret mitchell in which scarlett ohara struggles to maintain her familys plantation, which has fallen into disrepair since atlanta. This passionate, nearly breathless love letter is a song of solomon to margaret mitchell.
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