Gone With the Wind

He would come out, I saw him once come out, sit down in a chair and start reading Gone With The Wind. Until you left.

And this was an age now of a lot of sentimental literature. Americans came to love stories of the Old South. And, of course, it's there in Gone with the Wind, the most, still maybe the most famous movie ever made.

who did a fantastic episode with us on Gone With The Wind.

I think it's Gone with the Wind is obviously, I suppose with Uncle Tom's Cabin, they're kind of two great literary bookends that surround the history of the Civil War in America and its aftermath.

When the novel was published in 1936 and it became an instant word of mouth phenomenon, it didn't have a massive publicity campaign behind it.

It was a genuine popular hit and it instantly became the book that everybody was reading and everybody was talking about in the United States.

It was written by a woman called Margaret Mitchell, whose life perfectly spans the first half of the 20th century.

The novel became a massive bestseller in the United States and then it exported very, very quickly, going across Europe as fascism was on the rise.

Mary Mitchell gone with the wind and a star is born and how all these things may be connected and drunk driving has a seam in the story as well.

Mary Mitchell, who was the, uh, uh, Mary Mitchell, my, my Margaret, Margaret, who wrote Gone with the Wind was killed by a drunk driver, um, in 1948 or seven.

she's the most, when she's killed by a drunk driver, she's the most famous author in America. She is Gone with the Wind is like, you know, the far and away, the biggest book of that era.

Game of Thrones, the DC Comics universe, Harry Potter, The Sopranos, classics like Gone with the Wind, and much more will now operate under the Netflix umbrella.

Author of Gone with the Wind, one of the best-selling American novels ever.

By the way, if you want to know how southerners really felt about black people, you should read Gone With the Wind.

The book gets snapped up by Hollywood. Clark Gable and Vivian Leigh, two giant stars in the leading roles.

Yeah I thought it was interesting in the middle when he read the entire script of Gone with the Wind as an attack on political correctness.

Now as we know, they've already subjected the works of Roald Dahl and Ian Fleming to this humiliation. So when you hear that they have released a new edition of the 1936 novel Gone with the Wind, you'll probably assume that this book was also vigorously harassed and assaulted by these sensitivity readers. But that is not the direction that the publisher PanMacmillan decided to go.

Because apparently this classic novel set in the south during the civil war era is so thoroughly objectionable, so deeply shocking and problematic that it's beyond the powers of the sensitivity readers to fix. From what I understand, a group of sensitivity readers actually tried to make revisions but after reading just two pages of the book they all spontaneously combusted leaving behind nothing but a rainbow coloured cloud and tufts of blue hair floating around.

They'll release it in its original form prefaced with a lengthy essay apologising for the book's existence.

PanMacmillan the publisher of Margaret Mitchell's classic 1936 American novel Gone with the Wind has added a trigger warning in the preface of the book's most recent publication telling readers that the text is harmful and problematic because of its whitesupremacist qualities.

Gone with the Wind is set before and during the American Civil War and tracks protagonist Scarlett O'Hara, the daughter of a southern plantation owner, as she navigates the tumult of her times. The warning reads that the novel includes problematic elements including the romanticism of a shocking era and the horrors of slavery, and that the publisher chose to leave the text in its entirety.

HBO's streaming service as you've heard took down Gone with the Wind the classic film took it down from its platform because one correct thinking individual wrote an op-ed instructing them to do so and so they did.

You are not going to be reading Gone with the Wind here, people.

And she wrote the first page and then put like eight pages from Gone with the Wind, pages two through nine, and then had a conclusion and got an A.

Rhett? Yeah, you can buy it online for 30 bucks.

Rhett frankly my dear, I don't give a damn. Is that him?

She cordoned me in the refrigerator in the wall and threw her purse "Gone With The Wind" in the dining room chair at me.

I remember just going mom, it's "Gone With The Wind".

It's really big. It's a really big book.

Oh she threw the book "Gone With The Wind".

And they're like, they kiss at the end. This is your...

It became the top-grossing movie of all time until 1939, when Gone with the Wind was released.