《飄（英文版）（套裝全2冊(cè)）》講述一個(gè)平凡女性的不平凡的人生歷程，一曲纏綿悱惻而又一波三折的愛(ài)情故事，一部長(zhǎng)盛不衰，歷久彌新的文學(xué)經(jīng)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.