Hello Dragonflies!
Welcome Summer! Long and hot sunny days. Perfect season to start a new Big Book Challenge. This challenge we will meet after each part every other month.
July Part 1 chapters 1-7
September Part 2 chapters 8-16
November Part 3 chapters 17-30
January Part 4 chapters 31-47
March Part 5 chapters 48-63
This Big Book Challenge we will be reading Gone with the Wind by American writer Margaret Mitchell. It was first published in 1936. The story is set in Clayton County and Atlanta, both in Georgia, during the American Civil War and Reconstruction Era. It depicts the struggles of young Scarlett O'Hara, the spoiled daughter of a well-to-do plantation owner, who must use every means at her disposal to claw her way out of poverty following Sherman's destructive "March to the Sea." This historical novel features a coming-of-age story with the title taken from the poem Non Sum Qualis eram Bonae Sub Regno Cynarae by Ernest Dowson.
Gone with the Wind was popular with American readers from the outset and was the top American fiction bestseller in 1936 and 1937.
Mitchell received the Pulitzer Prize for Fiction for the book in 1937. It was adapted into the 1939 film of the same name, which is considered to be one of the grestest movies ever made and also received the Academy Award for Best Picture during the 12th annual Academy Awards ceremony. Gone with the Wind is the only novel by Mitchell published during her lifetime.
As always you dont have to read the book to join the challenge.
Happy reading and see you soon.
