Books by Margaret Mitchell
“The novel charts the evolution of Scarlett O’Hara from a spoiled, sheltered, and superficial pre-war belle to a shrewd postwar plantation and business owner operating in and around Atlanta, Georgia. Scarlett’s family and their plantation home of Tara face endless challenges brought on by the war and its aftermath – including poverty, disease, runaway slaves, labor shortages, marauding Yankee soldiers, the burning of Atlanta, postwar carpetbaggers, crime, inflation, and the death of family and loved ones. Yet Scarlett’s relentless drive to protect her home leads her to overcome each obstacle in turn, including a love triangle that threatens to tear her family apart. For many readers the novel tells the story of the South’s surviving the Civil War, with the new South emerging to replace and succeed the storied South of old.” Read more...
Classic Novels of the American Civil War
Craig A. Warren, Literary Scholar
Interviews where books by Margaret Mitchell were recommended
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Les Misérables
by Victor Hugo -
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Homeland (Patria)
by Fernando Aramburu and Alfred MacAdam (translator) -
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Life and Fate
by Vasily Grossman and translated by Robert Chandler -
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In Search of Lost Time
by Marcel Proust -
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The Tale of Genji
by Murasaki Shikibu & translated by Edward G. Seidensticker -
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Clarissa
by Samuel Richardson
Long Novels
Long Novels
Shorter is better is the mantra of the digital age, but for some of us, there is no greater pleasure than reading a really long novel. Here we’ve listed some of the novels recommended on Five Books that are 400,000 words or more long, from literary classics to potboilers.
Classic Novels of the American Civil War, recommended by Craig A. Warren
The American Civil War (1861–1865) was a watershed moment in the history of the United States—and, as a result, has made an enormous impact on American literature, explains Craig A. Warren, author of Scars to Prove It: The Civil War Soldier and American Fiction. Here, he recommends five key texts: classic novels of the American Civil War that, together, offer a panoramic view of a country in crisis.
