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1、Gone with the windBy Margaret MitchellThe authorlMargaret Mitchell (November 8, 1900 August 16, 1949) was an American author, who won the Pulitzer Prize in 1937 for her novel Gone with the Wind. The novel is one of the most popular books of all time, selling more than 30 million copies (see list of
2、best-selling books). An American film adaptation, released in 1939, became the highest-grossing film in the history of Hollywood, and received a record-breaking ten Academy Awards. Overview lScarlett OHara is the daughter of an Irish immigrant who in 1861 owns a plantation named Tara in Georgia. Sca
3、rlett is infatuated with Ashley Wilkes, who, although attracted to her, marries his cousin, Melanie Hamilton. At the party announcing Ashleys engagement to Melanie, Scarlett meets Rhett Butler, who has a reputation as a rogue. As the Civil War begins, Scarlett accepts a proposal of marriage from Mel
4、anies brother, Charles Hamilton, who soon dies of disease in training. Scarletts main concern regarding his death is that she must wear black and cannot attend parties. lAfter the war, Scarlett inherits Tara and manages to keep the place going. When Scarlett cannot get money from Rhett to pay the ta
5、xes on Tara, she marries her sisters fianc, Frank Kennedy, takes control of his business, and increases its profitability with business practices that make many Atlantans resent her. Frank is killed when he and other Ku Klux Klan members raid a shanty town where Scarlet was assaulted while driving a
6、lone. Remorseful after Franks death, Scarlett marries Rhett, who is aware of her passion for Ashley but hopes that one day she will come to love him instead. Scarlett eventually comes to realize that she does love Rhett, but only once the couple has been through so much that Rhett has fallen out of
7、love with her. reviewslThe book includes a vivid description of the fall of Atlanta in 1864 and the devastation of war (some of that aspect was missing from the 1939 film). The novel showed considerable historical research. According to her biography, Mitchell herself was ten years old before she le
8、arned that the South had lost the war. Mitchells sweeping narrative of war and loss helped the book win the Pulitzer Prize on May 3, 1937. Meaningful sentencesl1.Land is the only thing in the world worth working for, worth fighting for, worth dying for. Because its the only thing that lasts.(土地是世界上唯
9、一值得你去为之工作, 为之战斗, 为之牺牲的东西,因为它是唯一永恒的东西) l2.I wish I could be more like you.(我要像你一样就好了) l3.Whatever comes, I will love you, just as I do now. Until I die.(无论发生什么事,我都会像现在一样爱你,直到永远) l4.I think its hard winning a war with words.(我认为纸上谈兵没什么作用) l5.Sir, youre no gentleman. And you miss are no lady.(先生,你可真不是个
10、君子,小姐,你也不是什么淑女) l6.I never give anything without expecting something in return. I always get paid.(我做任何事不过是为了有所回报,我总要得到报酬) l7.In spite of you and me and the whole silly world going to pieces around us, I love you.(哪怕是世界末日我都会爱着你) l8.If I have to lie, steal, cheat or kill, as God as my witness, Ill ne
11、ver be hungry again! (即使让我撒谎,去偷,去骗,去杀人,上帝作证,我再也不要挨饿了) l9.Now I find myself in a world which for me is worse than death. A world in which there is no place for me.(现在我发现自己活在一个比死还要痛苦的世界,一个无我容身之处的世界) l10.Youre throwing away happiness with both hands. And reaching out for something that will never make you happy.(你把自己的幸福拱手相让,去追求一些根本不会让你幸福的东西) l11.Home. Ill go home. And Ill think of some way to get him back. After all, tomorrow is another day.(家,我要回家.我要想办法让他回来.不管怎样,明天又是全新的一天)