Author·American·1900–1949

Margaret Mitchell

Also known as: Peggy Mitchell

Gone with the Wind is Mitchell's only published novel. Our guide reads it as both a notable piece of twentieth-century craft (the Atlanta-burning sequence in particular) and as the cultural cornerstone of the Lost Cause myth. Both readings live in the guide.

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1 book by Margaret Mitchell

1936
Gone with the Wind
The best-selling American novel of the twentieth century. Also a textbook of the Lost Cause myth. Read it with one eye on the page and the other on what the page is hiding.
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Curated lists featuring Margaret Mitchell

10 books · ~ 484h
Books That Earn Every Hour: Ten Essential Long Reads
Not long because they couldn't be shorter. Long because the size is the point.
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1 book by Margaret Mitchell

Gone with the Wind

Curated lists featuring Margaret Mitchell

Books That Earn Every Hour: Ten Essential Long Reads