《飘》为美国女作家玛格丽特·米切尔十年磨一剑的作品，也是惟一的作品。小说以亚特兰大以及附近的一个种植园为故事场景，描绘了内战前后美国南方人的生活。通过对主人公斯佳丽与白瑞德的爱情纠缠为主线，成功地再现了林肯领导的南北战争，美国南方地区的社会生活。本书为英文原版，同时提供配套朗读免费下载，扫描图书封底二维码即可直接进入收听页面。让读者在阅读精彩故事的同时，亦能提升英文阅读水平。

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《飘》是一部以美国南北战争为历史背景、以南方的社会生活为生活环境的全景社会小说。小说全面展现美国南方社会风貌以及各色人物在巨大的社会变革中的命运变迁，通过展现不同人物在混乱复杂的社会环境中的命运变化，揭示了不同的性格所必然走向不同的命运安排。作者运用女性所特有的观察视角，细微而又深刻地描写了以斯佳丽为中心人物，以瑞德、梅勒妮和艾希礼为主要性格人物的社会活动，通过他们的社会活动，展现了纷繁复杂的社会画面，以及他们各自不同的命运走向。本书自1936年首次出版后，在世界上被翻译成29种文字，总共销售了近3000万册。1937年，小说获得普利策奖。根据此书拍成的电影《乱世佳人》于1939年在亚特兰大举行首映，引起轰动，并迅速风靡全球。

本书为英文原版，同时提供配套朗读免费下载，扫描图书封底二维码即可直接进入收听页面。让读者在阅读精彩故事的同时，亦能提升英文阅读水平。

Gone with the Wind is a novel published in 1936 by American author Margaret Mitchell. This is a coming-of-age novel features one of the most well-known characters of American literature, Scarlett O’Hara. The book explores the effect of the American Civil War (1861-1865) on the characters and is set in the state of Georgia. It follows the life of the spoiled protagonist, Ms. O’Hara as she makes her way in the world, experiencing tragedy and romance while dealing with the social changes brought by the Civil War.

Gone with the Wind was immensely popular immediately, becoming the bestselling novel in America in 1936 and 1937. Margaret Mitchell, who was reluctant to publish her work, won a Pulitzer Prize for the novel in 1937. The novel has been adapted into an Academy Award-winning film starring Clark Gable and Vivien Leigh, a play and a ballet. It has also been made into a musical in Japan, Britain and France.

Over 30 million copies of Gone with the Wind have been printed worldwide. The novel remains popular in the United States and is still studied in universities and colleges in the English-speaking world.

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玛格丽特·米切尔，1900年出生于美国佐治亚州亚特兰大市的一个律师家庭。曾就读于华盛顿神学院、马萨诸塞州的史密斯学院。1922-1926年任地方报纸《亚特兰大日报》的记者。她于1926年开始创作《飘》，10年之后，作品才问世。随后，小说获得了1937年普利策奖和美国出版商协会奖。她一生中只发表了《飘》这部长篇巨著。

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Scarlett O’Hara was not beautiful, but men seldom realized it when caught by her charm as the Tarleton twins were. In her face were too sharply blended the delicate features of her mother, a Coast aristocrat of French descent, and the heavy ones of her florid Irish father. But it was an arresting face, pointed of chin, square of jaw. Her eyes were pale green without a touch of hazel, starred with bristly black lashes and slightly tilted at the ends. Above them, her thick black brows slanted upward, cutting a startling oblique line in her magnolia-white skin—that skin so prized by Southern women and so carefully guarded with bonnets, veils and mittens against hot Georgia suns.

Seated with Stuart and Brent Tarleton in the cool shade of the porch of Tara, her father’s plantation, that bright April afternoon of 1861, she made a pretty picture. Her new green flowered-muslin dress spread its twelve yards of billowing material over her hoops and exactly matched the flat-heeled green morocco slippers her father had recently brought her from Atlanta. The dress set off to perfection the seventeen-inch waist, the smallest in three counties, and the tightly fitting basque showed breasts well matured for her sixteen years. But for all the modesty of her spreading skirts, the demureness of hair netted smoothly into a chignon and the quietness of small white hands folded in her lap, her true self was poorly concealed. The green eyes in the carefully sweet face were turbulent, willful, lusty with life, distinctly at variance with her decorous demeanor. Her manners had been imposed upon her by her mother’s gentle admonitions and the sterner discipline of her mammy; her eyes were her own.

On either side of her, the twins lounged easily in their chairs, squinting at the sunlight through tall mint-garnished glasses as they laughed and talked, their long legs, booted to the knee and thick with saddle muscles, crossed negligently. Nineteen years old, six feet two inches tall, long of bone and hard of muscle, with sunburned faces and deep auburn hair, their eyes merry and arrogant, their bodies clothed in identical blue coats and mustard-colored breeches, they were as much alike as two bolls of cotton.

Outside, the late afternoon sun slanted down in the yard, throwing into gleaming brightness the dogwood trees that were solid masses of white blossoms against the background of new green. The twins’ horses were hitched in the driveway, big animals, red as their masters’ hair; and around the horses’ legs quarreled the pack of lean, nervous possum hounds that accompanied Stuart and Brent wherever they went. A little aloof, as became an aristocrat, lay a black-spotted carriage dog, muzzle on paws, patiently waiting for the boys to go home to supper.

Between the hounds and the horses and the twins there was a kinship deeper than that of their constant companionship. They were all healthy, thoughtless young animals, sleek, graceful, high-spirited, the boys as mettlesome as the horses they rode, mettlesome and dangerous but, withal, sweet-tempered to those who knew how to handle them.

Although born to the ease of plantation life, waited on hand and foot since infancy, the faces of the three on the porch were neither slack nor soft. They had the vigor and alertness of country people who have spent all their lives in the open and troubled their heads very little with dull things in books. Life in the north Georgia county of Clayton was still new and, according to the standards of Augusta, Savannah and Charleston, a little crude. The more sedate and older sections of the South looked down their noses at the up-country Georgians, but here in north Georgia, a lack of the niceties of classical education carried no shame, provided a man was smart in the things that mattered. And raising good cotton, riding well, shooting straight, dancing lightly, squiring the ladies with elegance and carrying one’s liquor like a gentleman were the things that mattered.

In these accomplishments the twins excelled, and they were equally outstanding in their notorious inability to learn anything contained between the covers of books. Their family had more money, more horses, more slaves than anyone else in the County, but the boys had less grammar than most of their poor Cracker neighbors.

It was for this precise reason that Stuart and Brent were idling on the porch of Tara this April afternoon. They had just been expelled from the University of Georgia, the fourth university that had thrown them out in two years; and their older brothers, Tom and Boyd, had come home with them, because they refused to remain at an institution where the twins were not welcome. Stuart and Brent considered their latest expulsion a fine joke, and Scarlett, who had not willingly opened a book since leaving the Fayetteville Female Academy the year before, thought it just as amusing as they did.

“I know you two don’t care about being expelled, or Tom either,” she said. “But what about Boyd? He’s kind of set on getting an education, and you two have pulled him out of the University of Virginia and Alabama and South Carolina and now Georgia. He’ll never get finished at this rate.”

“Oh, he can read law in Judge Parmalee’s office over in Fayetteville,” answered Brent carelessly. “Besides, it don’t matter much. We’d have had to come home before the term was out anyway.”

“Why?”

“The war, goose! The war’s going to start any day, and you don’t suppose any of us would stay in college with a war going on, do you?”

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