What should i read after gone with the wind

For the Fourth Edition, the editor has collated the 18… More. Shelve Wuthering Heights. Her courage is tested once again when she arrives at Thornfield Hall, where she has been hired by the brooding, proud Edward Rochest… More. Shelve Jane Eyre. To Kill a Mockingbird by Harper Lee. The unforgettable novel of a childhood in a sleepy Southern town and the crisis of conscience that rocked it. Shelve To Kill a Mockingbird.

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Shelve Water for Elephants. The Thorn Birds is a robust, romantic saga of a singular family, the Clearys. It begins in the early part of this century, when Paddy Cleary moves his wife, Fiona, and their seven children to Drogheda… More. Shelve The Thorn Birds. The Mitchell estate argued that the plot was too similar to that of the original and that that similarity was grounds for copyright infringement.

In the Suntrust vs Houghton Mifflin case, the publisher argued that the novel fell under the category of parody and that made use of the copyrighted material fair use. The case was settled with Houghton Mifflin offering a sizable donation to Morehouse College in exchange for publication. Just one year after the unsuccessful attempt to block an unauthorized Gone with the Wind retelling, the Mitchell estate semi-successfully blocked an unauthorized sequel.

In Kate Pinotti self-published her own sequel, The Winds of Tara , which disregarded all authorized sequels and rewrote some of the original story, bringing some characters back to life. The Mitchell estate issued a cease-and-desist order. Though Pinotti fought to publish her book, using the same fair use argument as Randall with The Wind Done Gone , she lost.

However, after discovering that the copyright in Australia had run out in , Pinotti eventually legally published the novel there with Fontaine Press. In , the Mitchell estate tried again. After a few false starts and two different authors, Donald McCaig was selected for his background in award-winning Civil War fiction. The result was Rhett Butler's People, which retold the events of Gone With the Wind from Rhett Butler's perspective and continued the story thereafter.

The reception was mixed. The novel ignored the events that took place in the previous authorized sequel, Scarlett , and offered up a portrayal of Butler that framed him as more of a romantic and internally tortured character than the rogue presented by the source material.

It was successful enough that when McCaig pitched another Gone with the Wind novel, this time a prequel focusing on Mammy that paralleled the Biblical story of Ruth. The Sound and the Fury — a groundbreaking novel for its time — follows the Compson family.

They are former aristocrats in Jackson, Mississippi who have fallen out of glory and into harder times. The novel, told in four distinct parts, follows them mostly throughout events taking place during the span of two days in April of , except for one part that takes place on a day in Though the scope of this novel is certainly much smaller than Gone With the Wind , it does follow similar themes, especially when it comes to the loss of Southern aristocracy and the decline of fortune.

While Gone With the Wind is always looked at as a Civil War novel though only a small portion of the book actually takes place during the Civil War , it is more of a story of survival, of excess, of building something of nothing, and an intense nostalgia of what is past.

They are also both known for having deeply selfish, self-serving, and unlikable protagonists despite both being lauded as literary greats. Have you already read this?

Then make sure to check out our list of books like The Great Gatsby! The novel brings to attention such themes as a loss of innocence and coming of age, however, it also examines the fraught race relations, injustice, and systemic racism that has plagued the United States since before the era of Gone With the Wind.

Then make sure to check out our list of books like To Kill a Mockingbird! May 7, May 6, Beverly Jenkins Beverly Jenkins is the most well known African-American romance author, writing both historical and contemporary.

Kindred , Octavia Butler Not a romance, but a time-travel tale of a African-American woman in s California pulled back in time to , to save a white slaveholder who will become her own ancestor.

Hopefully the rest of the awards will be collected somewhere public! Girl, Have You Read?