With Rhett walking out the door, leaving Scarlett with the immortal line “My dear, I don’t give a damn,” (Hollywood added “frankly”), Mitchell believed she had written “a natural and proper ending” to her story.īut her heirs thought differently, pursuing an income-producing sequel - movie, book or both - before the estate’s copyright on the characters expired in 2011. Mitchell, who died in an automobile crash in 1949, never wanted her novel of the Civil War South to have a sequel. It topped the bestseller list for 15 weeks, even though reviewers - as the author anticipated - trashed it. Readers Digest Condensed Book selection Literary Guild alternate.As for Ripley’s project, her 823-page book, “Scarlett: The Sequel to Margaret Mitchell’s ‘Gone With the Wind,’ ” published in 1991 was translated into 18 languages and sold well more than 1 million copies.
As the coincidence-laden plot twists towards its predictable ending, its myriad stereotyped characters utter dialogue embarrassing enough to make Robert E.
Ripley (Charleston includes potentially interesting historical detail, but it is all but obscured by the sorely abused conventions of the historical romance genre that dominate her story. Mary perseveres through poverty, drudgery, a sham marriage and subsequent rape, voodoo and a yellow fever epidemic, the mesmerizing Saint-Brevin toying with her heart all the while. As Mary wanders the strange city, her path crosses that of her Aunt Celeste who, hoping to retain the inheritance left by Mary's mother, hides her identity from her niece. Mary escapes the brothel, virtue intact, but not before she is seen there by Valmont Saint-Brevin, a handsome Creole aristocrat. The naive girl soon falls into the clutches of New Orleans' most infamous madam. When Mary's father dies, leaving his fortune to his unscrupulous second wife, 16-year-old Mary sets out for New Orleans to find her real mother's family. Set in antebellum Louisiana, this historical romance follows the fortunes of Mary McAlister, raised in a convent in Pennsylvania.
0 kommentar(er)
