Books with author Margaret Mitchell

Written from the perspective of the slaveholder, Gone with the Wind is Southern plantation fiction. Its portrayal of slavery and African Americans has been considered controversial, especially by succeeding generations, as well as its use of a racial epithet and ethnic slurs common to the period. However, the novel has become a reference point for subsequent writers of the South, both black and white. Scholars at American universities refer to, interpret, and study it in their writings. The novel has been absorbed into American popular culture. (Wikipedia)

From the author of the national bestseller Gone With the Wind.A spirited tale of love and honor in the South Pacific.Until recently, the world thought Margaret Mitchell had only one story to tell: Gone With the Wind. Now meet a heroine to match Scarlett O'Hara: Courtenay Ross, a feisty, independent-minded woman, and the two men - one a coolheaded, well-heeled gentleman, the other a hot-blooded, pugnacious sailor - who adore her. Equally intriguing is the story behind the story—the real-life romance that inspired Mitchell: how she gave the original manuscript as a gift to her beau, Henry Love Angel, and how the manuscript, along with Mitchell’s intimate letters and treasured photographs, were lovingly safeguarded only to be discovered decades later in a shoebox!A tale of yearning, valor, and devotion, Lost Laysen is enthralling from its delightful beginning to its unforgettable end.Praise for Lost Laysen:'Like Scarlett O’Hara, Laysen’s headstrong heroine is a woman ahead of her time' - Vogue'Fascinating … what’s most valuable of all is the light this literary novelty sheds on the extraordinary artistic process' - Entertainment WeeklyMargaret Munnerlyn Mitchell (1900-1949) was born and raised in Atlanta, Georgia. Gone With the Wind, her only other published work of fiction, won the Pulitzer Prize in 1937. It has sold more than thirty million copies in more than thirty-one countries.

Until recently, the odd thought Margaret Mitchell had only one story to tell: Gone With the Wind. Now meet a heroine to match Scarlett: Courtenay Ross, a feisty, independent-minded woman, and the two men -- one a cool-headed, well-heeled gentleman, the other a hot-blooded, pugnacious sailor -- who adore her. A tale of yearning, valor, and devotion, Lost Laysen enthralls from its delightful beginning to its unforgettable end.Equally intriguing is the story behind the story -- the real-life romance that inspired Mitchell: how she gave the original manuscript as a gift to her beau. Henry Love Angel, and how the manuscript, along with Mitchell's intimate letters and treasured photographs, were lovingly safeguarded only to be discovered decades later in a shoebox!Lost Laysen is pure magic, a gift for us to cherish from America's most beloved storyteller.

Nominated as one of America’s best-loved novels by PBS’s The Great American Read. Margaret Mitchell's epic novel of love and war won the Pulitzer Prize and went on to give rise to two authorized sequels and one of the most popular and celebrated movies of all time. Many novels have been written about the Civil War and its aftermath. None take us into the burning fields and cities of the American South as Gone With the Wind does, creating haunting scenes and thrilling portraits of characters so vivid that we remember their words and feel their fear and hunger for the rest of our lives. In the two main characters, the white-shouldered, irresistible Scarlett and the flashy, contemptuous Rhett, Margaret Mitchell not only conveyed a timeless story of survival under the harshest of circumstances, she also created two of the most famous lovers in the English-speaking world since Romeo and Juliet.