- Hardcover: 768 pages
- Publisher: Macmillan (Sep 1991)
- Language English
- ISBN-10: 0333490991
- ISBN-13: 978-0333490990
- Product Dimensions: 22.4 x 16.3 x 5.6 cm
- Average Customer Review: 3.7 out of 5 stars See all reviews (31 customer reviews)
- Amazon Bestsellers Rank: 1,134,263 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)
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Scarlett O'Hara and Rhett Butler return in this sequel to "Gone With the Wind".
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10 of 10 people found the following review helpful
Format:Paperback
Like most of the other people who have reviewed this book, I loved GWTW and had to read the sequel whether it turned out to be good or bad, simply for the satisfaction of discovering what could have happened to Scarlett and Rhett. I found that the book was well written, for the most part keeping to a similar style as the origional, although towards the ending the characters did seem to act in a way that wasn't true to their origional characteristics. However, in reality I guess people would change over a length of time, and this book does stand on it's own as a good novel, and is definately worth reading.
22 of 24 people found the following review helpful
Format:Paperback
For over two generations, Margaret Mitchell's novel Gone With the Wind and its 1939 movie version have endured as classics in the historical romance genre. GWTW has always been one of my favorite novels, not just because it's well-written but, like Mitchell, I am a daughter of the South and take pride in my family's history. I suppose I'm just a romantic at heart, but I have read Mitchell's saga of Scarlett O'Hara, Rhett Butler, Ashley Wilkes, Mammy, and long-suffering Melanie many times, and I believe GWTW is a novel that will endure the test of time.
Although Ms. Mitchell died in Atlanta before I was born and never wrote a sequel even though fans begged her to, the idea never died down, and in the late 1980s Margaret Mitchell's estate selected romance author Alexandra Ripley to write "Scarlett: A Sequel to Margaret Mitchell's Gone With the Wind." Beginning where GWTW left off, "Scarlett" tells a sprawling story about a young woman who lives by the motto: "Tomorrow is another day." Taking readers from war-ravaged Georgia plantation Tara to the Emerald Isle where Scarlett's roots lie. Ripley's novel continues with the tempestuous love affair between Rhett Butler and Scarlett O'Hara.
In the beginning, Ashley mourns the loss of his beloved Melanie....and how Scarlett rushes forward to keep Ashley from throwing himself in the grave of his wife...causing yet another scandal for Scarlett to endure. Apparently, the fiery Mrs. O'Hara-Butler has a lot of genteel Southern women's tongues a wagging! Moreover, she is still mourning the loss of her daughter Bonnie.
Now that Melanie is dead does Scarlett try to achieve her long awaited dream of being Ashley's wife or does she go and try get back the man she truly loves? Will she find her destiny across the Atlantic in her ancestral Ireland? So begins the journey of Scarlett O'Hara-Butler to win back the man she wants in her life beside her, loving and guiding her.
This is a good book to read. I enjoyed the journey of Scarlett from start to finish; I loved the many twists and turns in the plot, especially Scarlett meeting the O'Hara side of the family and her many adventures in the novel. I give this book five stars for Ripley's eye for detail and the telling of a very romantic tale. I say again if you are a romantic...this is a book for you!
Betty June Moore
4 of 4 people found the following review helpful
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I truly did enjoy this book, the love story is easy to lose yourself in, and the style of writing enables you to read easily, and for long periods of time without feeling the need to take a break. It has been mentioned in previous reviews that Mrs Ripley has not cptured the essence of Scarlet's character, and I would say this is true. Although she is the same, wanton, high-spirited woman with a devil-may-care attitude and an independant nature, the way she is presented is different. The story is interesting, lively, and heart-warming - I don't want to give it away, but it ends the way I think everyone wished it did in Gone with the Wind. However, I can't help but think that I woul've enjoyed it just as much, if not more, had this been a novel in it's own right, not a sequel - as I feel a comparison between the two books is useless. You can just feel when reading them, that they were written decades apart - so if you do read Scarlet, don't expect a sequel as such..... Just a wonderful tale between two people, who happen to be called Scarlet and Rhett Butler......
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Hate it!
I just hate how it ruins the story of Scarlett. I do not like that she has kids...that she is so changed...nope...not for me. GOne with the wind is the one and only....
Published 2 months ago by M
I wouldn't call it a sequel to Gone With the Wind
If I had read this as a 'stand alone' book, I probably would have been merely disappointed, as I found it very slow moving, and the plot rather incredulous. Read more
Published 12 months ago by Diarab
I was hooked
I love this book, it is one of the 1st books for a long time I have read that I am having problems laying down, I have had some very late nights reading and this morning I thought,... Read more
Published 21 months ago by A. Martin
Not a bad effort!
Mitchell's sweeping epic is one of my all time favourite comfort reads and so, on finishing it for the umpteenth time I resolved to give the 'sequel' a look, mainly because I just... Read more
Published on 2 Feb 2010 by Alison F. Brunton
A huge disappointment
I love "Gone with the wind", one of the best written books I ever read. Unfortunately, "Scarlett" has very little to do with it: characters have the same name but not the same... Read more
Published on 10 Jan 2010 by R. Gimenez Gonzalez
A highly credible sequel, difficult at the best of times...
I would recommend this book to all lovers of `Gone With the Wind' because only the lack of intricate detail tells the reader that this was not written by Margaret Mitchell; there... Read more
Published on 9 Dec 2009 by BookWorm
Didn't think I'd like it BUT I DID!!
Well, only just read this, as I couldn't bring my self to before, because I did think that I really did not want anything to detract from the original, Gone with the Wind. Read more
Published on 5 April 2009 by Mrs. Judith Lugg
Starts off well . . .
. . . but sadly dawdles towards the middle.
I absolutely love 'Gone With The Wind' and was quite intrigued when I discovered that a sequel had been written and was very happy... Read more
I absolutely love 'Gone With The Wind' and was quite intrigued when I discovered that a sequel had been written and was very happy... Read more
Published on 19 July 2008 by Scarlett
catt!
i loved this book there are certain places which are iffy! but i love it the way scarlett learns about who she is without changing the scarlett most people love but she gets to no... Read more
Published on 12 Jun 2008 by miss o hara
A Worthy Sequel to Gone with the Wind
After watching Gone with the Wind I decided to read the book and it was all the film was and more. I couldn't bear to finish the story there and Margaret Mitchell didn't write a... Read more
Published on 26 May 2008 by aapjebaapje
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