Gone With The Wind
(Margaret Mitchell)
To say that Gone with the Wind is one of the most heart-wrenching love stories ever told is a misleading understatement.
To describe this epic American novel in terms its intricately researched civil war history and its reconstruction of a lost era is far too impersonal.
Rather, what allowed Gone with the Wind to win the Pulitzer Prize, inspire one of the most popular movies ever made, and remain a classic novel read and reread by generations is the combination of these two factors. It is one of the most phenomenal love stories ever conceived, and it takes place in a changing world that is so vivid, so carefully researched and so artfully imagined that you can feel the silent fear in the air the night before Atlanta is taken, just as you can feel the muddy red soil of the plantation in Scarlett's hands.
This is the only book I've ever read where I've often times hated the protagonist, and yet still cared deeply about her fate. Similarly, while the world of privileged plantation owners and an inhumane caste system of slavery is not one that I esteem, Mitchell's prose was able to make me mourn the loss of these days with a wistfulness like those of her characters. I consider these two feats to be monumental literary achievements; Gone with the Wind is a masterpiece.
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