Introduction: Mitchell (1900 ~ 1949) is an American woman writer. Born in Atlanta, Georgia, southern United States. My father is a lawyer and the president of the Atlanta Historical Society. Mitchell studied at Washington Theological Seminary and Smith College in Massachusetts. Later, she became a reporter for the local newspaper Atlanta. 1925, he married John Ma Erkai, resigned and devoted himself to writing. Mitchell only published Gone with the Wind in his life. She started writing Gone with the Wind from 1926. 10 years later, her works came out, which caused a strong response as soon as they were published. Influenced by his family, Mitchell became interested in American history, especially the history of the American South during the Civil War. She heard many anecdotes and rumors about the civil war and post-war reconstruction in her hometown, and contacted and read many books about the civil war. She grew up in the southern American city of Atlanta and was deeply impressed by the customs in the southern United States. The natural and social environment here has become the background and source of Mitchell's literary creation. Gone with the Wind has been translated into 18 languages and spread all over the world, and it has been selling well so far. Gone with the Wind won the Pulitzer Prize with 1937. 1938 made into a movie. The film was shown in China and translated as Gone with the Wind.
Gone with the Wind
Margaret mitchell, an American woman writer, is famous in the world and occupies a place in the literary world after writing only one work. Her only work Gone with the Wind has become the best-selling work in American novels. Since the publication of 1936, Gone with the Wind, an American civil war legend, has broken all the publishing records at that time. 1937, the novel won the Pulitzer Prize. Later, it was adapted into a film, and even this film became a classic in American film history.
Although American literary circles have been deliberately belittling the literary value of Gone with the Wind, thinking that Gone with the Wind is just a popular novel, the fact that Gone with the Wind has been selling well for decades has won it a classic status. Gone with the Wind continues in America and even all over the world. Twenty-seven years after the author's death, this book still tops the list of hardcover novels in the United States, and gone with the wind, a paperback version, has always maintained the ninth best seller position in the United States. According to statistics, as of 1993, the global sales volume of Gone with the Wind has exceeded 28 million copies, not counting the pirated books of Ganges Sand. Now, Gone with the Wind has been translated into dozens of languages and sold in nearly 40 countries around the world.
1939, Fu Donghua translated Margaret's masterpiece Gone with the Wind for the first time, and named it Gone with the Wind, which has been passed down to this day. Beautiful and brave Scarlett, romantic and persistent Rhett, strong and tolerant Han Melanie, elegant and cowardly Ashley-these names linger in the minds of generations and last forever.
Gone with the Wind is a must-read for women, because there are two female models in this book-Scarlett and Han Melanie-telling us that different women have different powers of conquest, different women have different tastes, but they all have their own unique flavors.
The classic flower of love blooming in the blood rain of American Civil War
One of the outstanding American literary works in the 20th century.
Gone with the Wind is based on the American Civil War and post-war reconstruction in the 1960s, with the love entanglement and life experience of the heroine Scarlett as the main line. It focuses on portraying the attractive, intelligent, competitive, greedy and ruthless female image of Scarlett, the daughter of a big manor owner, and vividly reproduces the process from prosperity to collapse of plantation economy in the southern United States. The life of female slave owners went from arrogance and extravagance to the end of the road, slave owners launched wars crazily until they failed and perished, and the slave economy was finally replaced by the capitalist economy. This is the collapse history of slave society in the southern United States. While describing the life and love of the characters, this book outlines the similarities and differences between the north and the south in politics, economy and culture. With a strong epic style, it can be called a true portrayal of the turning point in American history and has become an enduring love classic.
The author Mitchell has made great artistic achievements in Gone with the Wind with his superb artistic attainments. The characters in the book have distinct personalities, and several protagonists are strongly contrasted and interdependent in personality and morality, which leads to a series of conflicts and many confusing suspense, which makes the story develop one after another and ups and downs. The characters' language is vivid and vivid, with their own characteristics, which makes them real and touching. This dramatic plot is organically combined with the delicate psychological description of the characters, which produces the effect of three-dimensional description and strongly attracts readers.
For a long time, Gone with the Wind did not enter the palace of literary research, but this did not detract from its charm. What made it famous all over the world was the novel adaptation of Gone with the Wind, which won 10 Oscar and became the first classic business card in film history. The images of Vivien Leigh and Gable in Gone with the Wind have become the real Scarlett and Rhett in the eyes of countless people.