Cliff Notes for Gone With the Wind
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Spark Notes Gone with the Wind List Price: $4.95 Sale Price: $2.35 Used From: $0.01  |
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Gone with the Wind (MAXNotes Literature Guides) List Price: $3.95 Sale Price: $2.29 Used From: $0.99 Average Rating:  |
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it can help you undeerstanding the American modern culture and their mind of life and living style.
Red it, read it, read it! So realistic! It is a must. Loved the book. Felt with the charicters. "Frankly my dear I don't give a damn." Best line ever written!
It is a really good help to review for the test, you can't just read the whole book over, so these notes really helped me study!!! I don't know what I would have done without them!!
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Gone With the Wind List Price: $28.00 Sale Price: $16.50 Used From: $6.44 Average Rating: |
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A monumental classic considered by many to be not only the greatest love story ever written, but also the greatest Civil War saga.
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- ISBN13: 9780684830681
- Condition: NEW
- Notes: Brand New from Publisher. No Remainder Mark.
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This book has been a personal favorite of mine since I was in Elementary School. Yes, I was born a book worm with an advanced reading level. I was named for Ashley from this very book and my brother was named for Rhett so I was required to read it, but not required to like it I just happened to fall in love with Margaret Mitchell and her story. It tells so many stories in one and has such an appeal to it no wonder it is still going strong after almost 75 years. I would recommend this book to anyone, although girls seem to enjoy it more as it is told by Scarlett's point of view. Scarlett is the girl you love to hate. She is so endearing and strong but so young and naive that you want to hit her and shelter her at the same time. Rhett is a man's man and women across the world want to have him. He exudes all that is strong and masculine while being head over heels in love with Scarlett and their baby girl. Ashley is a pity case as he is torn and used. Melanie is a personal favorite of mine, like a pet kitten. She is fierce and strong with claws of steel but purrs and mews with the innocence and undying love of a newborn baby kitten. All of the characters are developed well and are all very rounded. You will get lost in this time period and forget what a cell phone is.
This is just such an enjoyable read. Scarlett is appropriately evil, and in the end redeemable. Wonderful novel. I intend to read this again very soon. I had not realized how much better the book is than the movie!
Great Classic, an awesome book. A must have for all who love reading. I really recommend it. I'm still reading, it has over 1000 pages, also a true gift for those who love old stories like me.
excellent service ...fast and book in perfect condition would recommend to anyone to buy from this sight...
I have read this book three times and each time it gets better and better. Our book group enjoyed it too.
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Gone with the Wind List Price: $18.00 Sale Price: $9.65 Used From: $4.40 Average Rating: |
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Margaret Mitchell's epic novel of love and war won the Pulitzer Prize and went on to give rise to two authorized sequels and one of the most popular and celebrated movies of all time. Many novels have been written about the Civil War and its aftermath. None take us into the burning fields and cities of the American South as Gone With the Wind does, creating haunting scenes and thrilling portraits of characters so vivid that we remember their words and feel their fear and hunger for the rest of our lives. In the two main characters, the white-shouldered, irresistible Scarlett and the flashy, contemptuous Rhett, Margaret Mitchell not only conveyed a timeless story of survival under the harshest of circumstances, she also created two of the most famous lovers in the English-speaking world since Romeo and Juliet.
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- ISBN13: 9781416548898
- Condition: NEW
- Notes: Brand New from Publisher. No Remainder Mark.
Reviews
I read the preface and felt a connection because i was born and im being raised inthe south (south carolina) im 10
I love Gone with the Wind! It is a beautiful and wonderful story to read over and over again!
this book has endured the many years because it is so well written...yes, we all know the story by heart, and have seen the movie (probably SEVERAL times..) but what a great read! truly a 20th century "romeo and juliet"!
What can I say? This one is a classic! A very good historical romance set in the south during and after the Civil War. I cannot help but love and hate Scarlett O'Hara, both for her feisty spirit, her stubborn disposition, and her passion for the unobtainable. If you've never read this book, you should.
One of the icons of American Literature and deservedly so. First read this when I was a teenager and my friends and I would ooh and aah over the scene near the beginning where Scarlett was trying to decide what to wear to the party at Ashley's plantation. I read it every couple of years thereafter and as I grew and matured so did my appreciation of this magnificent book. I first became more aware of how detailed Mitchell's research about the Civil War must have been (no matter how biased she was) and this prompted me to read more books both fiction and non-fiction about that period. My next level of maturity was demonstrated by subsequent reads where I became more impressed with Mitchell's willingness to avoid a standard HEA. She never painted Scarlett as anything but what the character demanded: a spoiled debutante whose world had not only collapsed but was blown away forever by the "wind". Scarlett's true, unvarnished, bottom line goal in life became to ensure that she and her family would survive and so would that representation of survival - Tara. Compared to the mores of that lost civilization, she seemed to have fallen from grace. In reality, she, being so very young, came to understand which of the values and mores of that civilization were worth keeping and what were just superficial and ignorant societal expectations. Unfortunately, she didn't realize this in time to obtain the greatest of those worthwhile values - true and reciprocated love. However, she did get what she needed and was looking toward the future with her trademark confidence and assurance. Just a fabulous, fabulous book.
Video & Audio
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Gone with the Wind (Two-Disc 70th Anniversary Edition) List Price: $24.98 Sale Price: $14.54 Used From: $14.97 Average Rating: |
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Studio: Warner Home Video Release Date: 11/17/2009 Run time: 238 minutes Rating: G
David O. Selznick wanted Gone with the Wind to besomehow more than a movie, a film that would broaden the very idea of what a film could be and do and look like. In many respects he got what he worked so hard to achieve in this 1939 epic (and all-time box-office champ in terms of tickets sold), and in some respects he fell far short of the goal. While the first half of this Civil War drama is taut and suspenseful and nostalgic, the second is ramshackle and arbitrary. But there's no question that the film is an enormous achievement in terms of its every resource--art direction, color, sound, cinematography--being pushed to new limits for the greater glory of telling an American story as fully as possible. Vivien Leigh is still magnificently narcissistic, Olivia de Havilland angelic and lovely, Leslie Howard reckless and aristocratic. As for Clark Gable: we're talking one of the most vital, masculine performances ever committed to film. --Tom Keogh
DVD Information
Binding: DVDAspect Ratio: 1.33:1
Audience Rating: NR (Not Rated)
Brand: WARNER HOME VIDEO
Manufacturer: Warner Home Video
Original Release Date: 1939-01-01
Actors:
- Clark Gable
- Vivien Leigh
- Thomas Mitchell
- Barbara O'Neil
- Evelyn Keyes
Reviews
Plenty of Gone with the Wind for any fan although pretty sure they have an #? Anniversary addition out so might want to check that out first.
GWTW has always been my all-time favorite movie. Sound and visual qualities are awesome--I will never tire of watching it.
This is a very impressive special box set indeed.The box is velvet lined,comes with a 52 page hardbound book,studio inter-office memo letter reprints,a reproduction of the 1939 theatre souvenir booklet,art prints,a CD Sampler[8 tracks]of the Max Steiner Music Score,and 8 hours,or more,of bonus features,plus the Movie[3 Blu-Ray Discs in total].The movie itself is 100% perfect,it's visual detail,colors,clarity,sharpness,is like nothing I have ever seen in previous versions[either at the movie theatre,or at home],and the sound is in HD MASTER AUDIO 5.1,also in it's Original Mono Format.The movie has a very informative commentary track you can listen to during the movie if you like.Among the bonus features on Disc#2,and Disc#3,is the 6 hour "MGM:WHEN THE LION ROARS" series,featurettes,documentaries,"The Scarlette O'Hara Wars"[Emmy-Winning Made-For-T.V.-Movie],and numerous other extras.All in all,a beautifully presented,extremely well put together Deluxe Box Set for the Serious Movie Lover and the Serious Collector,highly recommended,Five/5 Stars*****All The Way!Buy it!A Winner!
I probably watched this movie for the first time when I was a newborn. I was named for Ashley, not the best character but a good name, and my brother's namesake is Rhett. I have seen this movie probably a good 100 times and love it more each time. It isn't as good as the book but they never are. I love this movie, it is timeless. All the bonus features are a must if you are like me and have seen the movie enough times and are hungry for more. I love Olivia d'Havilland. She is an amazing Melanie and does great in the bonus footage. If you love the movie I recommend the book. In both you are swept to a time of hoop skirts and real values. I love it.
I actualy got the movie for my father but he called me to let me know he was very impressed with it and had no complaints
