To understand what may explain Gone With the Wind ’s appeal and its continued presence on the literary scene is to enter vexed territory. ģ Nothing, however, seemed to justify such a popularity. Globally, Guinness World Records puts the film’s revenues variously between $3.3 billion and $5.3 billion, topping even blockbusters like Titanic and Avatar. The film? While calculating exact dollar earnings over an 80-year period may be utterly impossible, no film has earned more money if the figure is adjusted for inflation. 1 In 2014, the novel was voted the second-favorite book of Americans (Haq). Both film and novel have indeed had incredible futures: Mitchell’s Pulitzer Prize-winning novel has never gone out of print in the United States the almost countless foreign editions keep selling too. Pierre-François Caillé) a (.)Ģ Scarlett O’Hara’s famous words “Tomorrow is another day” certainly had a premonitory character. 1 In 2020, Gallimard released a new paperback edition of the novel (transl.
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