A show by Guido Meyer
Those who are among the incorrigible romantics, those who like romance novels with a tragic outcome, and those who think it’s great that a book of pain and passion just so oozes – this year has reason to toast.
The novel “Gone with the Wind” was published 85 years ago
The Margaret Mitchell House in Atlanta, the author wrote “Gone with the Wind”. burned down at the beginning of the millennium and has since been restored. It is also a museum.
It has been 85 years since the novel “Gone with the Wind” was published; “Gone with the Wind”, as it is called in the original. In it, the North is fighting the south, and in the middle of it, Scarlett O’Hara and Rhett Butler beat each other. In 1939, three years following the publication of the book, a cinema in the USA showed the film adaptation of the same name for the first time. It was a movie theater in Atlanta, Georgia, the US state that also plays a central role in the novel.
And that’s where she also lived and worked: Margaret Mitchell, the creator of the novel. Her former residence is now a museum, the Margaret Mitchell House. Whether as part of a guided tour or on your own: visitors can take themselves back to the middle of the last century.
You can also see the small desk where the author wrote the novel of her life. And there is still room for one or the other anecdote. Guido Meyer looked around – and listened – at the Margaret Mitchell House.
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