Customer Reviews

a complex and beautiful debut - By: , 04 Sep 2000
The book is much more complex than the 1939 film, & focuses on Scarlet's life taking place over twelve years. The historical content & accuracy is staggering. The prose is both colloquial to the time & poetic. Scarlet is an anti-hero for the nineteenth century & although she goes out of her way to lose your sympathy you cannot hepl but fallin love with her & all the characters of this remarkable book, which was Mitchell's first & last novel. It took me three days to read the 1000 page-plus & I have re-read it many a time since.