Mitchell's Gone with the Wind
1936 · Work
Margaret Mitchell's only novel — Scarlett O'Hara's Georgia through Civil War and Reconstruction — sells a million copies in six months, wins the Pulitzer, and fixes the romanticised 'Lost Cause' South in the world's imagination.
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