{"product_id":"gone-with-the-wind-margaret-mitchell-2","title":"Gone With The Wind: Margaret Mitchell","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cspan lang=\"en-US\"\u003eSpoiled, selfish, beautiful and seventeen - Scarlett O'Hara of Tara always got whatever she wanted. Except Ashley Wilkes. He is to marry his mousy little plain cousin Melanie. Scarlet almost can't bear it. She especially can't bear the teasing of Rhett Butler, who overhears her declaration of love for Ashley and Ashley's gentle but firm refusal. \u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan lang=\"en-US\"\u003eShe hastily marries Melanie’s brother Charles and after she is widowed, \u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan lang=\"en-US\"\u003eRhett court\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan lang=\"en-US\"\u003es\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan lang=\"en-US\"\u003e Scarlett through the early days of the \u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan lang=\"en-US\"\u003eAmerican \u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan lang=\"en-US\"\u003eCivil War. But Scarlett's world is turned upside down when the Northern Army reaches Atlanta, \u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan lang=\"en-US\"\u003edestroying everything in their path\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan lang=\"en-US\"\u003e and she must flee with a frightened servant and Melanie, who has just given birth to Ashley's son - to return to a Tara almost destroyed by war, \u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan lang=\"en-US\"\u003ea \u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan lang=\"en-US\"\u003ebroken \u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan lang=\"en-US\"\u003efather and the death of her mother. The few servants that are left and Scarlett's younger sisters look to her to care for, feed and protect them. Melanie, physically weakened by childbirth must be nursed. \u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan lang=\"en-US\"\u003eThere’s nothing to eat – both armies have taken everything. Scarlett\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan lang=\"en-US\"\u003e turns all her stubborn willfulness to survival, planting cotton and keeping the land. \u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan lang=\"en-US\"\u003eS\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan lang=\"en-US\"\u003ehe battles on, doing whatever she must to survive. \u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan lang=\"en-US\"\u003eShe will steal, she will \u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan lang=\"en-US\"\u003e\u003ci\u003ekill \u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan lang=\"en-US\"\u003eto survive...\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan lang=\"en-US\"\u003e Until Rhett Butler re-enters her life as dramatically as he left it. Margaret Mitchell always intended that the book's central character would be Melanie - but as she wrote, she found \u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan lang=\"en-US\"\u003ethat\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan lang=\"en-US\"\u003e 'the other woman was taking over'. \u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Cosmic Cauldron Books","offers":[{"title":"Hardback; partial dust jacket; Reprint Society 1951; decorative boards; tightly bound and clean within; uncommon edition","offer_id":41784828362830,"sku":"USG171","price":15.0,"currency_code":"AUD","in_stock":true},{"title":"Hardback; 1950 MacMillan and Co; dust jacket has been protected by a plastic cover; free front end page has been neatly removed otherwise a near fine copy of an uncommon edition","offer_id":41784828395598,"sku":"SR3\/1","price":195.0,"currency_code":"AUD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0624\/0508\/3214\/files\/gone-with-the-wind-1951.jpg?v=1725554530","url":"https:\/\/cosmiccauldronbooks.com.au\/products\/gone-with-the-wind-margaret-mitchell-2","provider":"Cosmic Cauldron Books","version":"1.0","type":"link"}