故事發(fā)生于美國南北戰(zhàn)爭前夕。生活在佐治亞州的少女斯佳麗從小受著南方保守的文化傳統(tǒng)的熏陶，可她身上卻日益顯示出叛逆的個性，熱情、奔放，具有種種鮮明的現(xiàn)代女性特征。隨著戰(zhàn)火的蔓延和環(huán)境的惡化，斯佳麗身上的這種叛逆的個性轉(zhuǎn)而表現(xiàn)為艱苦創(chuàng)業(yè)、自強不息的精神，并在一系列的挫折中不斷改造自我，挽回整個家族的頹勢，從而成為時勢造就的新女性形象。
小說在描寫個人命運與情感波瀾的同時，還以開闊的場景和史詩的韻致成功地勾勒出南北戰(zhàn)爭的大背景以及南北雙方在政治、經(jīng)濟、文化等各方面的差異，堪稱美國歷史轉(zhuǎn)折時期的真實寫照，因而，小說自誕生之日起即風靡全世界，成為英語文學中長盛不衰的愛情經(jīng)典。
《飄（英文版）（套裝全2冊）》講述一個平凡女性的不平凡的人生歷程，一曲纏綿悱惻而又一波三折的愛情故事，一部長盛不衰，歷久彌新的文學經(jīng)典。
Spring had come early that year,with warm quick rains and sudden frothing of pinkpeach blossoms and dogwood dappling with white stars the dark river swamp and far-off hills.Already the plowing was nearly finished,and the bloody glory of the sunsetcolored the fresh-cut furrows of red Georgia clay to even redder hues.
The moist hungry earth,waiting upturned for the cotton seeds,showed pinkish onthe sandy tops of furrows,vermilion and scarlet and maroon where shadows lay alongthe sides of the trenches.The whitewashed brick plantation house seemed an island setin a wild red sea,a sea of spiraling,curving,crescent billows petrified suddenly at themoment when the pink-tipped waves were breaking into surf.For here were no long,straight furrows,such as could be seen in the yellow clay fields of the flat middleGeorgia country or in the lush black earth of the coastal plantations.
Gone with the Wind is a novel by MargaretMitchell.Published in 1936,the book was animmediate success.Margaret Mitchell wasawarded a Pulitzer Prize for the novel in 1937,and Gone with the Wind was first adapted tofilm in 1939.
On June 30th in 1936,Margaret Mitchell'sGone with the Wind waspublished.It had beenextensively promoted,chosenas the July selection by theBook-of-the-Month Club,andso gushed about in pre-publication reviews——"GoneWith the Wind is very possiblythe greatest American novel,"said Publisher's Weekly-that it was certain to sell,andto provoke parody.
Mitchell was born in Atlanta,Georgia.Herchildhood,it seems,was spent in the laps ofCivil War veterans,and her maternal relatives,who lived through the war and the years tofollow.They told her everything about the warexcept that the Confederates had lost it.Shewas ten years old before making thisdiscovery.
She attended Smith College,but withdrewfollowing her final exams in 1919.Shereturned to Atlanta to take over the householdafter her mother's death earlier that year.Shortly afterward,she joined the staff of TheAtlanta Journal where she wrote a weeklycolumn for the newspaper's Sunday edition.
The book includes a vivid description of the fall of Atlanta in 1864 and the devastationof war（some of that aspect was missing from the 1939 film）.The novel showedconsiderable historical research.According to her biography,Mitchell herself was tenyears old before she learned that the South had lost the war.Mitchell's sweeping narrativeof war and loss helped the book win the Pulitzer Prize on May 3,1937.
Over the past years,the novel Gone with the Wind has also been analyzed for itssymbolism and mythological treatment of archetypes.Scarlett has been characterizedas a heroic figure struggling and attempting to twist life to suit her own wishes.Theland is considered a source of strength,as in the plantationTara,whose name is almost certainly drawn from the Hill ofTara in Ireland,a mysterious and poorly-understoodarcheological site that has traditionally been connected tothe temporal and/or spiritual authority of the ancient Irishkings.
Mitchell margaret(1900-1949)American writer.Margaret Mitchell is the popular author of"Gonewith the Wind"1936),thetale of Scarlett O'Hara and her tragedies and triumphs through the Civil War and Reconstruction.Mitchell was awarded the ulitzer Prize and the National Book Award for her novel.
PART ONE
Chapter 1
Chapter 2
Chapter 3
Chapter 4
Chapter 5
Chapter 6
Chapter 7
PART TWO
Chapter 8
Chapter 9
Chapter 10
Chapter 11
Chapter 12
Chapter 13
Chapter 14
Chapter 15
Chapter 16
PART THREE
Chapter 17
Chapter 18
Chapter 19
Chapter 20
Chapter 21
Chapter 22
Chapter 23
Chapter 24
Chapter 25
Chapter 26
Chapter 27
Chapter 28
Chapter 29
Chapter 30
PART FOUR
Chapter 31
Chapter 32
Chapter 33
Chapter 34
Chapter 35
Chapter 36
Chapter 37
Chapter 38
Chapter 39
Chapter 40
Chapter 41
Chapter 42
Chapter 43
Chapter 44
Chapter 45
Chapter 46
Chapter 47
PART FIVE
Chapter 48
Chapter 49
Chapter 50
Chapter 51
Chapter 52
Chapter 53
Chapter 54
Chapter 55
Chapter 56
Chapter 57
Chapter 58
Chapter 59
Chapter 60
Chapter 61
Chapter 62
Chapter 63
So,Ellen,no longer Robillard,turned her back onSavannah,never to see it again,and with a middle-agedhusband,Mammy,and twenty“house niggers”journeyedtoward Tara.
The next year,their first child was born and they namedher Katie Scarlett.after Gerald‘s mother.Gerald wasdisappointed,for he had wanted a son,but he neverthelesswas pleased enough over his small black-haired daughter toserve rum to every slave at Tara and to get roaringly,happilydrunk himself.
If Ellen had ever regretted her sudden decision to marryhim,no one ever knew it,certainly not Gerald,who almostburst with pride whenever he looked at her.She had putSavannah and its memories behind her when she left thatgently mannered city by the sea,and,from the moment ofher arrival in the County,north Georgia was her home.
When she departed from her father’s house forever,shehad left a home whose lines were as beautiful and flowingas a woman‘s body,as a ship in full sail;a pale pink stuccohouse built in the French colonial style,set high from theground in a dainty manner,approached by swirling stairs,banistered with wrought iron as delicate as lace;a dim,richhouse,gracious but aloof.
She had left not only that graceful dwelling but also theentire civilization that was behind the building of it,and shefound herself in a world that was as strange and different asif she had crossed a continent.
Here in north Georgia was a rugged section held by ahardy people.High up on the plateau at the foot of the BlueRidge Mountains,she saw rolling red hills wherever shelooked.with huge outcroppings of the underlying graniteand gaunt pines towering somberly everywhere.
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