6/29/2023 0 Comments Gone with the wind book author"I don't know that she ever speculated about a sequel - she may have done it to her close friends. "She was so overwhelmed with the reception of the original book that she actually didn't have time to think about writing anything else," Clarke said. Mitchell's only novel took 10 years to complete. A 50th-anniversary edition published last year sold out its printing of 60,000 hardback copies. Published in 1936 by Macmillan, Margaret Mitchell's chronicle of love and the ravages of war in the South has sold 25 million copies in 27 languages. "Who knows whether a similar chord will be struck by the treatment this new author gives it? Most of us feel it will be highly popular, but whether it will measure up to the original is a question mark," Clarke said. Hal Clarke, a member of the three-man committee that guards Mitchell's copyright and was authorized by her late brother, Stephens Mitchell, to look into a sequel. "It's going to be a tough, tough assignment," said Atlanta attorney T. A "Gone II" movie is a foregone conclusion. The William Morris literary agency in New York has tentatively selected an author, still unnamed, to write an authorized sequel. But 51 years after the book was published, tomorrow is at hand for Scarlett and Rhett. So ended "Gone With the Wind," the passionate novel of the Civil War-torn South whose author, Margaret Mitchell, insisted she would never write a sequel. But she would think about it tomorrow, at Tara: "After all, tomorrow is another day."
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