Word: alberoni
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...Italy another Gone With the Wind clone has surfaced under the title L'Orto del Paradiso (The Garden of Paradise). When the heroine of Rosa Giannetta Alberoni's novel kisses her amante ("Arianna seemed to hear a roaring, as if she had held seashells against her ears"), the moment echoes the heart-thudding scene between Scarlett O'Hara and Ashley Wilkes ("There ) was a low curious roaring sound in her ears as of seashells being held against them"). Yet despite a plethora of parallel passages, Alberoni denies she has ever read Mitchell's novel. By contrast, Deforges admits that...