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1861, Géorgie. Scarlett O'Hara a seize ans. Elle a devant elle l'avenir radieux d'une riche héritière de Tara, une importante plantation de coton. Mais la guerre civile est sur le point de plonger dans le chaos le pays tout entier, et Scarlett a le cœur brisé : Ashley Wilkes vient d'en épouser une autre. Pour fuir son chagrin, elle va s'installer à Atlanta, impatiente de goûter à l'énergie d'une grande ville. Là, un certain Rhett Butler, à la réputation douteuse de contrebandier, commence à s'intéresser à Scarlett et son caractère rebelle.

1866. De retour à Tara, ravagée par la guerre, Scarlett O'Hara n'a que peu de moyens pour subvenir aux besoins de ses proches, y compris Ashley dont elle reste secrètement amoureuse. Acculée, elle retourne à Atlanta où elle recroise Rhett Butler, toujours persuadé qu'ils sont faits l'un pour l'autre. La laissera-t-il lui échapper cette fois ? Comment regarder de l'avant quand la vie n'est que décombres ? Et que peut la morale d'autrefois face à l'argent d'aujourd'hui ?

When Gone with the Wind appeared in 1936, it became on overnight sensation. Nothing like it in American literature had ever been seen. It went on to win the Pulitzer Prize and become one of the most celebrated films of all time. It has sold more than 30 million copies worldwide and been translated into 27 languages. Gone with the Wind is both an historical novel and an examination of the bewildering changes that swept Georgia in the 1860s.

Eine unsterbliche Liebesgeschichte und einer der größten Bestseller des 20. Jahrhunderts: Scarlett O’Hara, verwöhnte Tochter eines Plantagenbesitzers, muss in den Wirren des amerikanischen Bürgerkrieges um den Familienbesitz Tara kämpfen. Stolz und Eigensinn stehen ihrer Liebe zu dem charmanten Kriegsgewinnler Rhett Butler im Wege.

The pampered daughter of a wealthy Georgian plantation owner, sixteen-year-old Scarlett O’Hara soon realises that young men can’t resist her charms, despite her forthright manners and her refusal to embrace her mother’s ladylike ways. She enters into an early marriage, but when the war between the Union and the Southern States breaks out and she is left a young widow, Scarlett’s life is turned upside down, and she finds herself embroiled, together with the world surrounding her, in a long struggle for survival.

The Republic of Gilead offers Offred only one function: to breed. If she deviates, she will, like dissenters, be hanged at the wall or sent out to die slowly of radiation sickness. But even a repressive state cannot obliterate desire - neither Offred's nor that of the two men on which her future hangs. Brilliantly conceived and executed, this powerful evocation of 21st-century America gives full rein to Margaret Atwood's devastating irony, wit and astute perception.

Margaret Mitchell (1900-1949) skrev i sin levetid kun én roman, nemlig Borte med blæsten. Den udkom første gang i 1936 i hjemlandet USA, hvor den opnåede øjeblikkelig succes. I 1937 blev bogen tildelt Pulitzerprisen, og den er sidenhen solgt i mere end 30 millioner eksemplarer verden over. Borte med blæsten regnes i dag for en udødelig klassiker og filmatiseringen fra 1939 med Vivien Leigh og Clark Gable i hovedrollerne for en lige så udødelig filmklassiker.

Scarlett O'Hara vive en Tara, una gran plantación del estado sureño de Georgia, y está enamorada de Ashley Wilkes, que en breve contraerá matrimonio con Melanie Hamilton. Estamos en 1861, en los prolegómenos de la guerra de Secesión, y todos los jóvenes sureños muestran entusiasmo por entrar en combate, excepto el atractivo aventurero Rhett Butler. A Butler le gusta Scarlett, pero esta sigue enamorada de Ashley, que acaba de hacer público su compromiso con Melanie. Despechada, Scarlett acepta la propuesta de matrimonio de Charles, el hermano de Melanie, al que desprecia.

La giornalista Margaret Mitchell(1900-1949) lavorò dieci anni ad un libro che venne poi pubblicato nel 1936 con un titolo che era una citazione di una poesia di Dowson. Il libro fu subito un successo e vendette 180000 copie. Nel 1937, grazie al suo romanzo, la Mitchell vinse il Pulitzer e nel '38 fu candidata al Nobel. La scrittrice fece molta resistenza alla realizzazione del film, che fu poi completato nel 1939, costituendo una pagina indimenticabile nella storia del cinema.

Der Weltbestseller, neu als Hörspiel inszeniert. Sie ist eine der bekanntesten, widersprüchlichsten und stärksten Frauenfiguren des 20. Jahrhunderts: Scarlett O’Hara, Heldin eines weltberühmten Romans und Films. Wie kann ihre Geschichte heute erzählt werden? An Scarletts Seite steht eine Persönlichkeit, die die Brüche der Zeit spürbar macht: Prissy. Als Sklavin und Dienstmädchen eigentlich Nebenfigur, sind sie und ihre Nachfahren in diesem Hörspiel Hauptfiguren, deren Erfahrungen bis ins heutige Berlin weiterverfolgt werden.

Margaret Mitchell was as complex and compelling as her legendary heroine, Scarlett O'Hara, and her story is as dramatic as anything out of her own imagination. Indeed, it is the basis for the legend she created. Gone with the Wind took the American reading public by storm and went on to become one of the most popular books and motion pictures of all time. The book was a phenomenon whose success has never been equaled, but it shattered Margaret Mitchell's private life.

On the Caribbean island of Saint Domingue, an island consumed by the flames of revolution, a senseless attack leaves only one survivor - an infant girl. She falls into the hands of two French émigrés, Henri and Solange Fournier, who take the beautiful child they call Ruth to the bustling American city of Savannah. What follows is the sweeping tale of Ruth's life as shaped by her strong-willed mistress and other larger-than-life personalities she encounters in the South.

Pup Morgan is a radical surfer. His dad, Mad Dog Morgan, is a surfing legend. Pup plus school, and Dad plus his job, just don't add up to happy times. One day they break out, and it's six weeks of full-on surfing and the ultimate in surfaris.

Lennie's great-grandfather played for the Cheetahs. So did his grandfather. So did his dad. They're footy legends.

An apocalyptic cult member carries out a gas attack on a rush-hour metro, but what links him to a jazz buff in downtown Tokyo? Or to a Mongolian gangster, a woman on a holy mountain who talks to a tree and a late night New York DJ? Set at the fugitive edges of Asia and Europe, Ghostwritten weaves together a host of characters, their interconnected destinies determined by the inescapable forces of cause and effect.

Black Swan Green tracks a single year in what is, for 13-year-old Jason Taylor, the sleepiest village in muddiest Worcestershire in dying Cold War England, 1982. But the 13 chapters, each a short story in its own right, create an exquisitely observed world that is anything but sleepy. Pointed, funny, profound, left-field, elegiac, and painted with the stuff of life, Black Swan Green is David Mitchell's subtlest and most effective achievement to date.

Sylvia Townsend Warner was a prolific author of novels, short stories and poetry, who also wrote a biography of T. H. White, translated Proust and was an authority on Tudor church music. A sharp, insightful storyteller, she was one of the 20th Century's most acute observers of English mores, and her work is infused with subversive themes reflecting her feminist and Marxist views. This comprehensive anthology includes dramatisations of her two best-known novels.