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。作品刻画了那个时代的许多南方人的形象，占中心位置的斯佳丽、瑞德、艾希礼、梅兰妮等人是其中的典型代表。他们的习俗礼仪、言行举止、精神观念、政治态度，通过对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。
CARLETT 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.
Part One
Chapter I .......................................001
Chapter II......................................023
Chapter III.................................045
Chapter IV..................................071
Chapter V....................................086
Chapter VI..................................109
Chapter VII .................................151
Part Two
Chapter VIII...............................163
Chapter IX..................................186
Chapter X....................................229
Chapter XI..................................243
Chapter XII.................................252
Chapter XIII...............................274
Chapter XIV................................293
Chapter XV................................ 307
Chapter XVI ...............................323
Part Three
Chapter XVII..............................335
Chapter XVIII ............................362
Chapter XIX ..............................380
Chapter XX ................................398
Chapter XXI...............................408
Chapter XXII .............................426
Chapter XXIII............................433
Chapter XXIV............................456
Chapter XXV.............................490
Chapter XXVI............................507
Chapter XXVII............................533
Chapter XXVIII.........................547
Chapter XXIX.............................567
Chapter XXX ..............................582
Part Four
Chapter XXXI............................603
Chapter XXXII ..........................623
Chapter XXXIII.........................641
Chapter XXXIV..........................658
Chapter XXXV...........................683
Chapter XXXVI..........................712
Chapter XXXVII.......................749
Chapter XXXVIII......................769
Chapter XXXIX.........................801
Chapter XL.................................820
Chapte XLI.................................842
Chapter XLII...............................871
Chapter XLIII............................890
Chapter XLIV............................907
Chapter XLV...............................922
Chapter XLVI.............................947
Chapter XLVII...........................958
Part Five
Chapter XLVIII.........................989
Chapter XLIX...........................1003
Chapter L...................................1026
Chapter LI.................................1039
Chapter LII...............................1046
Chapter LIII.............................1066
Chapter LIV..............................1086
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