飘（英文版）（套装全2册）
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《飘（英文版）（套装全2册）》讲述一个平凡女性的不平凡的人生历程，一曲缠绵悱恻而又一波三折的爱情故事，一部长盛不衰，历久弥新的文学经典。
Spring had come early that year, with warm quick rains and sudden frothing of pinkpeach blossoms and dogwood dappling with white stars the dark river swamp and far-off hills. Already the plowing was nearly finished, and the bloody glory of the sunsetcolored the fresh-cut furrows of red Georgia clay to even redder hues.
The moist hungry earth, waiting upturned for the cotton seeds, showed pinkish onthe sandy tops of furrows, vermilion and scarlet and maroon where shadows lay alongthe sides of the trenches. The whitewashed brick plantation house seemed an island setin a wild red sea, a sea of spiraling, curving, crescent billows petrified suddenly at themoment when the pink-tipped waves were breaking into surf. For here were no long,straight furrows, such as could be seen in the yellow clay fields of the flat middleGeorgia country or in the lush black earth of the coastal plantations.
Gone with the Wind is a novel by MargaretMitchell. Published in 1936, the book was animmediate success. Margaret Mitchell wasawarded a Pulitzer Prize for the novel in 1937,and Gone with the Wind was first adapted tofilm in 1939.
On June 30th in 1936, Margaret Mitchell'sGone with the Wind waspublished. It had beenextensively promoted, chosenas the July selection by theBook-of-the-Month Club, andso gushed about in pre-publication reviews——"GoneWith the Wind is very possiblythe greatest American novel,"said Publisher's Weekly-that it was certain to sell, andto provoke parody.
Mitchell was born in Atlanta, Georgia. Herchildhood, it seems, was spent in the laps ofCivil War veterans, and her maternal relatives,who lived through the war and the years tofollow. They told her everything about the warexcept that the Confederates had lost it. Shewas ten years old before making thisdiscovery.
She attended Smith College, but withdrewfollowing her final exams in 1919. Shereturned to Atlanta to take over the householdafter her mother's death earlier that year.Shortly afterward, she joined the staff of TheAtlanta Journal where she wrote a weeklycolumn for the newspaper's Sunday edition.
The book includes a vivid description of the fall of Atlanta in 1864 and the devastationof war （some of that aspect was missing from the 1939 film）. The novel showedconsiderable historical research. According to her biography, Mitchell herself was tenyears old before she learned that the South had lost the war. Mitchell's sweeping narrativeof war and loss helped the book win the Pulitzer Prize on May 3, 1937.
Over the past years, the novel Gone with the Wind has also been analyzed for itssymbolism and mythological treatment of archetypes. Scarlett has been characterizedas a heroic figure struggling and attempting to twist life to suit her own wishes. Theland is considered a source of strength, as in the plantationTara, whose name is almost certainly drawn from the Hill ofTara in Ireland, a mysterious and poorly-understoodarcheological site that has traditionally been connected tothe temporal and/or spiritual authority of the ancient Irishkings.
内容简介
故事发生于美国南北战争前夕。生活在佐治亚州的少女斯佳丽从小受着南方保守的文化传统的熏陶，可她身上却日益显示出叛逆的个性，热情、奔放，具有种种鲜明的现代女性特征。随着战火的蔓延和环境的恶化，斯佳丽身上的这种叛逆的个性转而表现为艰苦创业、自强不息的精神，并在一系列的挫折中不断改造自我，挽回整个家族的颓势，从而成为时势造就的新女性形象。
小说在描写个人命运与情感波澜的同时，还以开阔的场景和史诗的韵致成功地勾勒出南北战争的大背景以及南北双方在政治、经济、文化等各方面的差异，堪称美国历史转折时期的真实写照，因而，小说自诞生之日起即风靡全世界，成为英语文学中长盛不衰的爱情经典。
作者简介
Mitchell margaret (1900-1949)American writer.Margaret Mitchell is the popular author of "Gonewith the Wind" 1936), thetale of Scarlett O'Hara and her tragedies and triumphs through the Civil War and Reconstruction. Mitchell was awarded the ulitzer Prize and the National Book Award for her novel.