Its intense focus on a ruthless heroine neatly underscores what this brick of a book is instead: an exploration of transformation, loss, and the deep unfairness of life. Perhaps no story can do more justice to these themes-more memorably and, ultimately, devastatingly-than this, Margaret Mitchell's Pulitzer Prize-winning masterpiece.
Its intense focus on a ruthless heroine neatly underscores what this brick of a book is instead: an exploration of transformation, loss, and the deep unfairness of life. Perhaps no story can do more justice to these themes-more memorably and, ultimately, devastatingly-than this, Margaret Mitchell's Pulitzer Prize-winning masterpiece.