Gone with the Wind

What Classic Literature Was Almost Called (20 books items)

"Among the titles Mitchell considered for the novel were Tomorrow is Another Day, Ba! Ba! Black Sheep, Tote the Weary Load, Jettison, None So Blind, Milestones, Not in Our Stars, Mules in Horse Harness, and Bugles Sang True. The title Mitchell ultimately chose came from Ernest Dowson's poem Non Sum Qualis Eram Bonae sub Regno Cynarae ("I have forgot much, Cynara! Gone with the wind / Flung roses, roses riotously with the throng, / Dancing, to put thy pale, lost lilies out of mind...")."

Misleading Titles (14 books items)

"What I Think: A tornado destroys Scarlett O'Hara's Midwest home. The Actual Plot: The Civil War destroys Scarlett O'Hara's Southern plantation."

TIME's 100 Greatest Novels: 1923 -- Present (100 books items)

""It's one of the best-selling books ever bound between covers, but that's not what makes Margaret Mitchell's magnificent mint julep of a novel great. The ultimate, original sweeping historical romance, it follows high-spirited Scarlett O'Hara, roguish Rhett Butler and romantic, infinitely good-looking Ashley Wilkes as the world that nurtured them is swept away in the cataclysm of the Civil War. As quintessentially American as Tolkien's The Lord of the Rings is English, Gone with the Wind is a co"

Murakami Book References (21 books items)

"Referenced in Blind Willow, Sleeping Woman"

Banned, Burned, Censored (94 books items)

"This Pulitzer Prize winning novel was banned from the Anaheim, Calif. Union High School District English classrooms (1978). "