Margaret Mitchell's Gone with the Wind follows Scarlett O’Hara through the American Civil War and Reconstruction, charting her survival, marriages, and complicated relationship with Rhett Butler. Written from a white Southern perspective, the novel romanticizes the antebellum South and plantation life, while erasing and distorting the realities of slavery and Black resistance. The book becomes both blockbuster historical romance and deeply problematic cultural artifact, proving that some “classics” must be read critically, with attention to whose stories are centered and whose are silenced.

WHY WE PICKED IT: Because readers still seek this novel out, and it belongs on the shelf with clear context about its racism, Lost Cause mythology, and the harm of its nostalgia. We carry it for readers who want to engage critically with popular narratives of the Civil War era, not as an endorsement of its worldview.

DETAILS:
• Author: Margaret Mitchell
• Publisher: Scribner Book Company
• Format: Paperback & Hardcover
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