Gone with the Wind
Margaret Mitchell · 1936
A Pulitzer Prize winner that has sold more copies than almost any novel in history. Whatever its moral complexities, the Scarlett-Rhett relationship is fiction's great combustion: two people too proud to love each other until it's too late. "After all, tomorrow is another day" lands differently when you've been on this journey.
The case against
Mitchell built her epic on Lost Cause mythology: slavery appears as a benign arrangement, enslaved characters are minstrel caricatures, and the Klan rides as offstage chivalry. None of this is incidental to the romance; Tara's charm is the plantation's. A thousand pages is a long time to spend inside that view, however combustible Scarlett and Rhett remain.
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