Gone with the Wind - Mitchell, Margaret

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Résumé :
Gone with the Wind takes place during the American Civil War and Reconstruction Era. It depicts the struggles of young Scarlett O'Hara, the spoiled daughter of a well-to-do plantation owner, who must use every means at her disposal to claw her way out of poverty following the destruction of the Civil War. Scarlett lives through an extreme reversal of fortune and wealth, as she searches for love and happiness. Gone with the Wind was popular with American readers from the outset and was the top American fiction bestseller in 1936 and 1937. As of 2014, a Harris poll found it to be the second favorite book of American readers, just behind the Bible. More than 30 million copies have been printed worldwide. Mitchell received the Pulitzer Prize for Fiction for the novel in 1937....

Biographie:
Margaret Munnerlyn Mitchell (November 8, 1900 - August 16, 1949) was an American novelist, and journalist. Mitchell wrote only one novel, published during her lifetime, the American Civil War-era novel Gone with the Wind, for which she won the National Book Award for Most Distinguished Novel of 1936 and the Pulitzer Prize for Fiction in 1937. In more recent years, a collection of Mitchell's girlhood writings and a novella she wrote as a teenager, Lost Laysen, have been published. A collection of articles written by Mitchell for The Atlanta Journal was republished in book form. In May 1926, after Mitchell had left her job at the Atlanta Journal and was recovering at home from her ankle injury, she wrote a society column for the Sunday Magazine, Elizabeth Bennet's Gossip, which she continued to write until August. Meanwhile, her husband was growing weary of lugging armloads of books home from the library to keep his wife's mind occupied while she recovered from a slow-healing auto-crash injury; he emphatically suggested that she write her own book instead. To aid her in her literary endeavors, John Marsh brought home a Remington Portable No. 3 typewriter (c. 1928). For the next three years Mitchell worked exclusively on writing a Civil War-era novel whose heroine was named Pansy O'Hara (prior to Gone with the Wind's publication Pansy was changed to Scarlett). She used parts of the manuscript to prop up a wobbly couch. Margaret Mitchell was struck by a speeding automobile as she crossed Peachtree Street at 13th Street in Atlanta with her husband, John Marsh, while on her way to see the movie A Canterbury Tale on the evening of August 11, 1949. She died at age 48 at Grady Hospital five days later on August 16 without fully regaining consciousness.

Sommaire:
Margaret Mitchell, born in Atlanta in 1900, was deeply influenced by her Southern upbringing and family stories of the Civil War and Reconstruction. Her fascination with history and her passion for storytelling shaped her work as a journalist and novelist. Despite her tomboyish childhood, she developed a love for reading and writing from an early age.In the 1920s, Mitchell began writing Gone with the Wind, a novel that would become one of the most celebrated and controversial works in American literature. Published in 1936, the book won the Pulitzer Prize and remains a monumental depiction of the South during the Civil War and Reconstruction. Its complex characters and epic narrative continue to captivate readers worldwide.Tragically, Mitchell's life was cut short in 1949 when she was struck by a car in Atlanta. Despite her brief literary career, her legacy endures through her iconic novel, which has left a lasting impact on American culture and historical memory....