The book is a bit of a national obsession, so if you find yourself falling in love like so many others have, well, consider yourself just getting started. There are also additional books that pick up various threads of the story, though none written by Mitchell herself. Nope, there's a 1939 move that's hugely successful in its own right, as well as various musical and theatrical productions. Unsurprisingly, then, Gone With the Wind doesn't end with the book. Apparently, liking long books that have ample tragedy in the mix is about as American as apple pie no matter what year it is. But instead Gone With the Wind was a massive bestseller when it was published in 1936, and topped the best-seller list in 1937, too.īut before you write this off as some old-timey fondness for long, sad stories, consider this: A 2014 poll found that Gone With the Wind was the second most popular book in the country still, second only to the Bible, and ahead of Harry Potter.
War and Peace, for instance, isn't exactly standard beach reading. You'd think that as long and as tragic as Gone With the Wind is, no one would want to read it. It is, in short, a book in which everything goes terribly wrong. Margaret Mitchell's 1936 novel is a great, sweeping tale about the tragedy of the Civil War, the end of civilization as the South's known it, and love turned to dust. Seriously: The only nutshell on the planet that can contain this beast of a book is probably the Coco de Mer.
It is enormously-perhaps even ridiculously-long. You can't get Gone With the Wind into a nutshell.
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