This book was published in 1937, but I would have sworn that Mitchell lived through the time period herself. I was blown away by the comprehensiveness of this novel, the way that Mitchell is able to write with such meticulous attention to detail over fifty years after these historic events took place. This tome is so much more than a simple love story– frankly, anyone who says otherwise clearly hasn’t read it! In writing Gone with the Wind, Margaret Mitchell has accomplished an astounding feat: creating a story that encompasses nearly the entire spectrum of emotions in the human experience, all while critiquing southern society, stereotypical gender roles, and other issues during the Civil War and Reconstruction Era. In all honestly, I wondered how the such a story could possibly go one for over a staggering one thousand pages. Before reading Gone with the Wind I had imagined that it would be a tragic tale of star-crossed romance set against the dramatic backdrop of the Civil War.
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