Gone with the Wind
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Summary
At the novel's opening, Miss Scarlett, only sixteen, is at the Tara plantation house, stopping the men from discussing "the war." At the story's end, Rhett Butler, already resolved to leave her, asks: "How old are you, my dear?" She answers, "Twenty-eight." Those twelve years trace a girl's growth into a mature woman. Having lost love, a husband, and a child, Scarlett at last loses the man she truly loves, yet her fortitude and resolve will still sustain her as she lives on in hope.
Editor's review
Who it's for
A good fit for
- Readers who enjoy long classic novels and are willing to invest the time
- Readers interested in themes of female growth and changing times
- Readers who want to understand the American South's social imagination through literature
- Readers who prefer the language style of older translations and have the patience for thick books
Not a good fit for
- Readers who want a quick read and prefer short stories or light reading
- Readers who find older translations hard going and are used to modern vernacular Chinese
- Readers expecting objective historical knowledge of the American Civil War
Reading tips
- Start by learning the basic background of the American Civil War and Reconstruction, then enter the novel and understand the circumstances behind the characters' choices.
- Focus your reading on Scarlett's changes over twelve years, noting her shifts after key events.
- Don't stop to look up unfamiliar expressions in the older translation; read on with the plot, and revisit them afterward.
- After reading, compare with the film Gone with the Wind to see what the adaptation kept and cut, but remember the film cannot replace the original.
About the publisher
China Overseas Publishing House focuses on philosophy, history, world classics and mystery and detective fiction, with a secondary interest in foreign literature and folk literature. Its catalogue of roughly 960 titles includes Wittgenstein's Tractatus Logico-Philosophicus, Jiang Tingfu's Modern Chinese History, Margaret Mitchell's Gone with the Wind, Arthur Conan Doyle's Complete Sherlock Holmes, Antoine de Saint-Exupéry's The Little Prince, as well as Classic Collected Edition of Greek Myths and a beautifully illustrated edition of Zhuangzi, giving it a publishing profile centred on classic translations and traditional Chinese culture. Its authors and translators range from Wittgenstein, Jiang Tingfu, Mitchell, Conan Doyle and Saint-Exupéry to Huang Min, Fu Donghua and Liu Shijie. Public information about its editorial philosophy and series system is limited.
Contents
- 版权信息
- 译序
- 飘（上）
- 第一章
- 第二章
- 第三章
- 第四章
- 第五章
- 第六章
- 第七章
- 第八章
- 第九章
- 第十章
- 第十一章
- 第十二章
- 第十三章
- 第十四章
- 第十五章
- 第十六章
- 第十七章
- 第十八章
- 第十九章
- 飘（中）
- 第二十章
- 第二十一章
- 第二十二章
- 第二十三章
- 第二十四章
- 第二十五章
- 第二十六章
- 第二十七章
- 第二十八章
- 第二十九章
- 第三十章
- 第三十一章
- 第三十二章
- 第三十三章
- 第三十四章
- 第三十五章
- 第三十六章
- 第三十七章
- 第三十八章
- 飘（下）
- 第三十九章
- 第四十章
- 第四十一章
- 第四十二章
- 第四十三章
- 第四十四章
- 第四十五章
- 第四十六章
- 第四十七章
- 第四十八章
- 第四十九章
- 第五十章
- 第五十一章
- 第五十二章
- 第五十三章
- 第五十四章
- 第五十五章
- 第五十六章
- 第五十七章
- 第五十八章
- 第五十九章
- 第六十章
- 第六十一章
- 第六十二章
- 第六十三章
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About the author
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.
Fu Donghua was a Chinese translator and literary editor. Publicly available information about him is limited, and neither his dates of birth and death nor his native place is known. Judging from the sixteen works held in the collection, his main contribution lay in translating foreign literature into Chinese. He is best known for rendering Margaret Mitchell's novel Gone with the Wind, which appears in the collection in several editions, including a six-volume set, a fortieth-anniversary collectors' edition, and a complete illustrated edition, and which also circulated under the title Random Times. He also translated Homer's Odyssey, demonstrating his ability to handle Western classics. Most of these translations fall under the categories of foreign literature and world classics, suggesting that his translations were aimed at general readers and balanced readability with literary quality. Fu Donghua's prose is fluent and natural, and he was skilled at making long narratives accessible to Chinese readers. His translations were reprinted over many years and served as an important channel through which generations of readers encountered foreign classics.
