Margaret Mitchell & John Marsh: The Love Story Behind Gone with the Wind
10 best books like Margaret Mitchell & John Marsh: The Love Story Behind Gone with the Wind (Marianne Walker): After the Funeral: The Posthumous Adventures of Famous Corpses, Gone with the Wind Letters, Becoming Shakespeare: The Unlikely Afterlife That Turned a Provincial Playwright into the Bard, Road to Tara: The Life of Margaret Mitchell, The Dangerous World of Butterflies: The Startling Subculture of Criminals, Collectors, and Conservationists, Haunted Britain and Ireland, Byron: Child of Passion, Fool of Fame, Hauntings: Tales of the Supernatural, The Strange Case of Edward Gorey, Accomodating Brocolli in the Cemetary: Or Why Can't Anybody Spell
| Author | Edwin Murphy |
| ISBN | 0760709246 |
Even though it is widely thought the human adventure ends with death, for a select and celebrated few it continued well beyond the grave. Exhuming some fascinating facts from history, this anthology of "necro-biographies" chronicles the bizarre after-death exploits of several prominent corpses,...
| Author | Margaret Mitchell |
| ISBN | 0283995076 |
These letters are fascinating and reveal a humorous, insightful personality of the author of Gone with the Wind. Unfortunately, this edition was published in the 1970s and thus does not include Mitchell's correspondence with Benjamin Mays, nor her correspondence with Hattie McDaniel. Despite...
| Author | Jack Lynch |
| ISBN | 0802715664 |
Becoming Shakespeare begins where most Shakespeare stories end—with his death in 1616—and relates the fascinating story of his unlikely transformation from provincial playwright to universal Bard. Unlike later literary giants, Shakespeare created no stir when he died. Though he'd once...
Road to Tara: The Life of Margaret Mitchell
Margaret Mitchell was as complex and compelling as her legendary heroine, Scarlett O’Hara, and her story is as dramatic as anything out of her own imagination—indeed, it is the basis for the legend she created.
Gone With the Wind took the American reading public by storm and went on to become...
| Author | Peter Laufer |
| ISBN | 1599215551 |
The whole time I was reading this book I kept thinking that the author was looking for a story that wasn't there. He didn't necessarily invent anything to write this book, but I think his own ignorance and his entitled sense of poetic license meshed to create a sense of suspense and danger where it really...
| Author | Richard Jones |
| ISBN | 1586637509 |
A spine-chilling exploration of the haunted sites of Britain and Ireland, and an indispensable guide for ghost-hunters everywhere
More than 130 haunted sites - and many more ghosts - are described in evocative and atmospheric detail
A wealth of biographical information and...
| Author | Benita Eisler |
| ISBN | 0679740856 |
In this masterful portrait of the poet who dazzled an era and prefigured the modern age of celebrity, noted biographer Benita Eisler offers a fuller and more complex vision than we have yet been afforded of George Gordon, Lord Byron.
Eisler reexamines his poetic achievement in the context...
Collection of 17 short stories.
1. The Lonesome Place by August Derleth c. 1947 by All-Fiction Field, Inc. and c. 1962 by August Derleth. Reprinted by permission of Arkham House.
2. In The Vault by H. P. Lovecraft c. 1932 by Popular Fiction Publishing Company, c. 1939, 1945 by August...
| Author | Alexander Theroux |
| ISBN | 1560973854 |
Like an obscure gentleman sleuth in the British mystery novels that he loved, the celebrated American artist Edward Gorey was a curious, reclusive individual with an inordinate interest in the drama of other people's lives, and a penchant for the grim reality of true crime. Surrounded by cats, books,...
Accomodating Brocolli in the Cemetary: Or Why Can't Anybody Spell
| Author | Vivian Cook |
| ISBN | 0743270991 |
"It is a damn poor mind that can think of only one way to spell a word." -- Andrew Jackson
Weird or wierd? Necessary or neccessary? Recomend or recommend? English spelling is fiendish, but that doesn't mean you can't have fun with it.
Accomodating Brocolli in the Cemetary is at once a celebration...
| Author | Ellen F. Brown |
| ISBN | 1589795679 |
This is the first detailed look at how Margaret Mitchell's Gone with the Wind became an international phenomenon. Various Mitchell biographies and a compilation of her letters tell part of the story, but until now no single source has told the full saga. This entertaining account of the rise of a bestseller...
| Author | Sharman Apt Russell |
| ISBN | 0738206695 |
In Anatomy of a Rose, Sharman Apt Russell eloquently unveils the "inner life" of flowers, showing them to be more individual, more enterprising, and more responsive than we ever imagined. From their diverse fragrances to their nasty deceptions, Russell proves that, where nature is concerned, "wonder...
Southern Daughter: The Life of Margaret Mitchell and the Making of Gone With the Wind
| Author | Darden Asbury Pyron |
| ISBN | 1588180972 |
This definitive biography of the author of "Gone With the Wind offers a perceptive psychological analysis of the novel and a concise study of the book's shifting critical fortunes in the contemporary South. The life of "Peggy" Mitchell, from her birth in the highest reaches of aristocratic Atlanta...
| Author | Alexander Walker |
| ISBN | 0802132596 |
I have seldom been more disappointed with a biography. I felt it should have been wonderful, considering the authority of the sources and the expertise of the author. However, it was dense and often dull in its repetitiveness. Other times, he left out key facts. For instance, Vivien suddenly has a relapse...
| Author | Elizabeth Partridge |
| ISBN | 0142300241 |
Dorothea Lange's desperate and beautiful pictures of migrant workers in California and her heartbreaking photographs of Japanese Americans interned during World War II put human faces on some of the darkest episodes in America's history. Restless Spirit is an intimate portrait of a woman who struggled...
| Author | Zena Alkayat |
| ISBN | 1452150230 |
Step into the world of one of history's most celebrated artists and feminist icons: Frida Kahlo. This beautifully illustrated biography is full of colorful details that illuminate the woman behind the artwork, including excerpts from Kahlo's personal letters and diaries on her childhood dreams...
| Author | Edward Gorey |
| ISBN | 0926637037 |
This goes though different scenes of people and there is a line for each and a word for the alphabet. It’s one of his good ones. There are several scenes that were very good.
“She knitted mufflers endlessly” - They are all bundled in scarves, so funny.
I can’t believe the scene for “He...
| Author | Ann Dinsdale |
| ISBN | 0711225729 |
The three Brontë sisters – Anne, Charlotte and Emily – moved to Haworth Parsonage as children in 1820. It was there, on the edge of the dramatic landscape of the Yorkshire Moors, that they produced some of the most memorable, influential and best-loved novels in the English language. Ann Dinsdale...
Scarlett Letters: The Making of the Film Gone With the Wind
| Author | John Wiley Jr. |
| ISBN | 1589798724 |
One month after her novel Gone With the Wind was published, Margaret Mitchell sold the movie rights for fifty thousand dollars. Fearful of what the studio might do to her story—“I wouldn’t put it beyond Hollywood to have . . . Scarlett seduce General Sherman,” she joked—the author washed...
| Author | M.C. Escher |
| ISBN | 0810924145 |
A collection of Escher's writings about his work, including a series of planned lectures (never given because of his health) with slides of the works. The explanations are similar but sometimes more detailed than in The Graphic Works, and there are about 200 works shown (but since this is a normal sized...
