Gone with the Wind

Name: Gone with the Wind
ISBN: 9787544704601

Margaret Munnerlyn MitchellYilin Press2000

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Series: Classics Translated
ISBN: 9787544704601

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Summary

Gone with the Wind is the only novel by American writer Margaret Mitchell, published in 1936 and awarded the Pulitzer Prize for Fiction the following year. Set in Georgia during the American Civil War and Reconstruction, it centers on Scarlett O'Hara, daughter of the Tara plantation owner: before the war she loves Ashley Wilkes of Twelve Oaks, only to see him marry the gentle Melanie; when war breaks out and the home is destroyed, her mother dies and her father loses his mind, she struggles to survive amid the ruins with Melanie and the child, stopping at nothing to keep Tara, and enters two marriages not born of love. After the war she marries Rhett Butler, who made his fortune in blockade-running, yet never sees clearly whom she truly loves, until Melanie dies and Rhett, his heart cold, walks away—only then, on the red earth of Tara, does she say, "Tomorrow is another day." The novel does not dwell on battlefield carnage but writes from a Southern woman's perspective of the hunger, fear, and transformation war brings to the home front, and of the decline of the old Southern plantation civilization. Li Meihua's translation for Yilin Press is one of the more widely circulated unabridged simplified Chinese editions.

Editor's review

《飘》常被当成一部爱情小说来读，但它真正动人的地方，是一个普通女人怎样在秩序崩塌的年代里一次次把自己从地上捡起来。米切尔用十年时间写成这一部书，半个世纪前的南方口音、舞会、棉花田和亚特兰大的大火，都在她的笔下带着温度。李美华的译本语言干净流畅，人名地名保留原貌，读起来既不失原作的南方式絮语，也不至于被长句拖住。八百多页的篇幅听上去吓人，可一旦进入塔拉庄园，节奏便自有牵引力。它不是一本教你如何成功的书，而是一本让你明白：人可以失去很多东西，但只要还愿意对明天说一句话，就还没有输。适合在长假或安静的冬天读完。

Who it's for

A good fit for

喜欢世界经典名著、愿意啃长篇的读者
对美国南北战争史与南方文化感兴趣的读者
偏爱以女性视角书写的成长与生存故事的人
想通过一部名作理解“女性意识觉醒”脉络的读者

Not a good fit for

时间零碎、只想读短篇或轻松读物的读者
期待纯粹战争场面或军事史的读者
对旧南方种族叙事缺乏耐心、容易不适的读者

Reading tips

先不要被八百页的厚度吓退，按“战前—战争—重建”三段来读，每读完一段停下来回望人物的变化。
留意思嘉、媚兰、瑞德、艾希礼四人对“过去”的不同态度，这是全书真正的思想骨架。
可对照1939年电影《乱世佳人》观看，但注意电影大幅简化了媚兰与战后重建的部分。
读完末章后再回头读第一章，会发现“明天又是新的一天”从一开始就是思嘉的生存方式。

About the publisher

Yilin Press China · Founded in 1988

Yilin Press focuses mainly on translated foreign literature. Its current catalogue of 318 titles covers common categories such as mystery and detective fiction, foreign literature, world classics, biography, and social novels. Representative books include The Complete Sherlock Holmes 2: The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes, Pride and Prejudice, To the Lighthouse, The Great Gatsby, The Grapes of Wrath, and Lives of the Artists: Michelangelo, often presented in bilingual or English-language editions that serve both original-text reading and language learning. Its author resources include foreign writers such as Arthur Conan Doyle, Jane Austen, Virginia Woolf, and Romain Rolland, as well as translators including Li Jiazhen, Gao Fen, and Ma Ye. The catalogue also includes Chinese works such as Li Jieren's Ripples Across Stagnant Water. The press shows a concentrated publishing strength in foreign classics and bilingual readers; given limited public information, this overview is based only on catalogue data.

FAQ

《飘》和《乱世佳人》是同一本书吗？

是同一部作品。《乱世佳人》是1939年米高梅改编电影的中文译名，上海译文等出版社也用过这个书名出版陈良廷等人的译本；原著通译名为《飘》，英文原名 Gone with the Wind。

哪个中文译本更值得读？

傅东华译本（1940年）是最早的全译本，人名地名全部中国化，读来顺口但删改较多；李美华、黄怀仁与朱攸若、梅静等译本更贴近原文。初读可选译林李美华译本，追求完整忠实可考虑较新的全译本。

这本书适合中学生读吗？

可以读，书中对战争、饥饿、婚姻与生存的描写有认识价值，篇幅和部分情节涉及成人议题，建议高中生及以上阅读，初中生可在师长引导下选读。

为什么书名叫《飘》？

英文原名 Gone with the Wind 意为“随风而逝”，指旧南方的生活方式与文明在战争中消散；中文以一字“飘”概括，傅东华译本定名后沿用至今。

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About the author

Margaret Munnerlyn Mitchell Author · American · 1900–1949

Margaret Mitchell (1900–1949) was an American woman writer and journalist, born in Atlanta, Georgia. In her lifetime she published only one novel, Gone with the Wind (1936), set against the backdrop of the American Civil War and Reconstruction and depicting the changes in Southern society amid war and the fates of its characters. It won the Pulitzer Prize in 1937 and was adapted into the film Gone with the Wind in 1939. Besides Gone with the Wind, the library holds various editions, including a six-volume set, a two-volume set, a fortieth-anniversary collector's edition, and a complete translation collector's edition, all classified under foreign literature and world classics. Public information about her life and writing career is limited, and her literary influence rests mainly on this work. She died in a car accident in 1949.