Franklin Library: Gone With The Wind: Civil War: Margaret Mitchell: Patron ' S Ed
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Franklin Library leather edition of Margaret Mitchell's "Gone With the Wind, " Illustrated by Edward Martinez, a PATRON'S EDITION, printed on acid-free paper---made to archival standards, published in 1986. Bound in hunter green leather with a colored insert on the front board of Scarlet O'Hara and Rhett Butler, the book has decorative paper end leaves, hubbed spine, satin book marker, gold gilding on three edges--- in FINE----SHRINK WRAPPED condition.[Photos are from a personal c...opy.] In the eve of the American Civil War in 1861, SCARLET O'HARA lives at TARA, her family's cotton plantation in GEORGIA, with her parents and two sisters. Scarlett learns that ASHLEY WILKES—whom she secretly loves—is to be married to his cousin, MELANIE HAMILTON, and the engagement is to be announced the next day at a barbecue at Ashley's home, the nearby plantation Twelve Oaks. At the Twelve Oaks party, Scarlett secretly declares her feelings to Ashley, but he rebuffs her by responding that he and Melanie are more compatible. Scarlett is incensed when she discovers another guest, Rhett Butler, has overheard their conversation; a smitten Rhett promises Scarlett he will keep her secret. Scarlet marries CHARLES HAMILTON, and later FRANK KENNEDY and when Frank dies defending her honor, she later married RHETT. In 1935, when Margaret Mitchell finished "Gone With the Wind, " she completed a Pulitzer Prize-winning novel that would capture and hold the imagination of the entire world. By the time of her death in 1949, her book had sold more than eight million copies and had been translated in forty countries. Over the years, the names of Mitchell's characters---Scarlett O'Hara, Rhett Butler, Melanie and Ashley Wilkes---have become household words. A flawlessly researched work about the American Civil War period, it is a unique historical and sociological account of the time. Never out of print, "Gone With the Wind" has sold more hardback copies than any other novel written by an American. 1038 pages. I offer Combined shipping.
