1936 novels (Book Guide)

Source: Wikipedia. Commentary (novels not included). Pages: 72. Chapters: Gone with the Wind, Keep the Aspidistra Flying, We the Living, At the Mountains of Madness, Cards on the Table, The A.B.C. Murders, Murder in Mesopotamia, Mephisto, Minty Alley, The Talisman Ring, Absalom, Absalom!, The Rubber Band, War with the Newts, Joseph and His Brothers, Laughing Gas, Flowers for the Judge, The Paradoxes of Mr. Pond, Nightwood, Ballet Shoes, Jamaica Inn, Thank You, Mr. Moto, The Dark Frontier, House of Incest, Buratino, Anne of Windy Poplars, In Dubious Battle, Sir Percy Leads the Band, Despair, The Sinister Signpost, Swords of Mars, Saint Overboard, Pigeon Post, Three Comrades, Names in Marble, The Island of the Mighty, Godaan, The General, The Rock Pool, Agents and Patients, The Punch and Judy Murders, The Lady in the Morgue, Death on Credit, The Mystery of the Ivory Charm, The Gilt Kid, Halfway House, Katrina, How the Steel Was Tempered, The Law and the McLaughlins, Coolie, Tarzan's Quest, South Riding, Eyeless in Gaza, The Rolling Years, The Kidnap Murder Case, The Island of Sheep, A Gun for Sale, Susannah of the Mounties, Out of Order, Billy and Blaze, Behind the Evidence, The Arabian Nights Murder, Captain Salt in Oz, The Crimson Patch, Fighting Angel, Roller Skates, The Brothers Ashkenazi, Know Ye Not Agincourt?, Dumb Luck, Drums Along the Mohawk, Trent's Own Case, The Sea of Grass, Death in Ecstasy, Fire Over England, Nobody's Buddy, Sherston's Progress, El Jetón, Stowaway to Mars, Doctor Syn on the High Seas, Black Spring, Further Adventures of Doctor Syn, Bread and Wine, Cudzoziemka, Traed mewn cyffion, Capitães da Areia, Mar Morto, The Hurricane, Man Overboard!. Excerpt: Gone with the Wind, first published in May 1936, is a romantic novel written by Margaret Mitchell that won the Pulitzer Prize in 1937. The story is set in Clayton County, Georgia and Atlanta during the American Civil War and Reconstruction and depicts the experiences of Scarlett O'Hara, the spoiled daughter of a well-to-do plantation owner who must use every means at her disposal to come out of the poverty in which she finds herself after Sherman's march to the sea. The novel is the source of the extremely popular 1939 film of the same name. The title is taken from the first line of the third stanza of the poem Non Sum Qualis eram Bonae Sub Regno Cynarae by Ernest Dowson: "I have forgot much, Cynara! gone with the wind." The novel's protagonist, Scarlett O'Hara, also uses the title phrase in a line in the book: when her home area is overtaken by the Yankees, she wonders to herself if her home on a plantation called "Tara," is still standing, or if it was "also gone with the wind which had swept through Georgia." More generally, the title refers to the entire way of life of the antebellum South as having "gone with the wind." The title for the novel was a problem for Mitchell. She initially titled the book "Pansy," the original name for Scarlett O'Hara. Although never seriously considered, the title "Pansy" was dropped once Macmillan persuaded Mitchell to rename the main character. Other proposed titles included "Tote the Weary Load", "Baa! Baa! Black Sheep", "Bugles Sing True", "Not in Our Stars", and "Tomorrow is Another Day," the latter taken from the last line in the book; the publisher noted that there were several books close to the same title at the time, so Mitchell was asked to find another title. She chose Gone with the Wind. Margaret Mit...