Gone with the wind 英文评价

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Gone With The Wind（飘）英文评价
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The novel is set in North Georgia at the time of the American Civil War, from 1861 to 1865 and beyond when the Southern plantation owners fought the northern Yankees for the right to own slaves. They lost the war, suffered innumerable losses of life in the process, and the romantic plantation life depicted in the early chapters of the novel is utterly destroyed. During this period the characters in the novel undergo the transition from a carefree playful life of picnics and parties (underlain by the hard graft of their slaves) to one of hand-to-mouth living and hard physical labour, and finally, back to prosperity.

I started reading with some trepidation. I’ve never been one for historical novels and especially not those concerning wartime. Too much blood and guts tends to spoil my dinner. However, knowing that it was my duty as a fully rounded woman to read this cl