Margaret and Gone with the Wind
2009
Writing Gone with the Wind accounted for nearly 10 years of Margaret’s time. In fact, most of the chapters of the first draft of the novel as early as in 1929 is complete. Her first completed the final chapter of the novel, and then return to write the previous chapter, but she has not written according to the sequence of events, but think of where to write where. In the past 10 years, the Margaret few of her friends brought her manuscript. Although many people know that she was creative, but almost no one knew what she was writing specifically. The spring of 1935, Macmillan Publishing Company, editor around the country soliciting contributions. When he came to Atlanta, the occasionally heard Marguerite write a book situation. At first, Margaret denied that she was writing fiction, because she did not believe the views of southerners to the Civil War, allows publishers interested in the north. A result, Latham to leave Atlanta on the day before, Margaret was sent to her had been playing for nearly five-foot thick manuscript. In the same year in July, Mike not lun company’s decision to publish the novel, and tentatively named Tomorrow is a new day.
Since then, Margaret has spent half a year’s time to cross-check fiction historical events involved in the specific time and place. She quoted American poet Ernest - Dawson’s a poem, novel, the title will be changed to Gone with the Wind. At the same time, Macmillan company also made a lot of publicity. Thus, June 30, 1936, this anonymous writer of masterpiece. Once available, its sales in the U.S. publishing industry take away a number of records: Japan’s top-selling when 50000; released the first six months 1 million; the first year of 2 million. Subsequently, the novel won the 1937 Pulitzer Prize and the American Publishers Association Awards. On in the novel came out that year, Hollywood will be the price of 5 million dollars bought the Gone with the Wind, adapted into the film’s rights. By David - Selznick directed, Clark Gabr, and Vivian - Lee starring film Gone with the Wind came in 1939.
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