Immortal novel by Margaret Mitchell
It was believed that at one time Margaret Mitchell's novel "Gone with the Wind" was the second most popular after the Bible. In the first year after its publication, more than 1 million copies were sold. A year after writing, the author received the Pulitzer Prize.
The novel tells about the life of a woman Scarlet O'Hara during the civil war in the United States. First, the daughter of a wealthy planter from Georgia had to go through the hard life tests associated with war and poverty, which tempered her character.
The screen version of the novel was published in 1939 and is considered a classic of cinema. The novel covers events that took place for 12 years, from 1861 to 1873. This is the history of the civil war between the industrial northern and southern agricultural states of America.
At first the author planned to name the novel "Tote Your Heavy Bag" or "Tomorrow is Another Day". The novel had phenomenal success with readers at home and abroad. In the first three weeks, 176,000 copies were sold, a year later - 1,176,000, and in the first ten years only the English version sold in a circulation of 3,500,000 copies.
In the USSR, the book was banned, and the first edition was published only in 1986, with the beginning of perestroika. In total, according to confirmed data, by 2010, 30 million copies of the novel were officially issued in the world.
The novel tells about the life of a woman Scarlet O'Hara during the civil war in the United States. First, the daughter of a wealthy planter from Georgia had to go through the hard life tests associated with war and poverty, which tempered her character.
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The screen version of the novel was published in 1939 and is considered a classic of cinema. The novel covers events that took place for 12 years, from 1861 to 1873. This is the history of the civil war between the industrial northern and southern agricultural states of America.
At first the author planned to name the novel "Tote Your Heavy Bag" or "Tomorrow is Another Day". The novel had phenomenal success with readers at home and abroad. In the first three weeks, 176,000 copies were sold, a year later - 1,176,000, and in the first ten years only the English version sold in a circulation of 3,500,000 copies.
In the USSR, the book was banned, and the first edition was published only in 1986, with the beginning of perestroika. In total, according to confirmed data, by 2010, 30 million copies of the novel were officially issued in the world.
