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...Rice Coast of South Carolina is fed by eleven rivers whose names read like one of the patriotic catalogs in Whitman's poems. From north to south they are the Waccamaw, the Pee Dee, the Black, the Sampit, the Santee, the Cooper, the Ashley, the Edisto, the Ashepoo, the Combahee, the Savannah. Near the mouths of these slow streams, in a region 150 miles long and about 50 miles wide, were the great rice plantations that before the Civil War made the South Carolina Low Country "the most prosperous area on the continent." In 1850 it had 446 plantations...
...important. Rhelt Butler is one on whom she lavishes enough care to make him live. A cynicvillain who is undeluded by the sanctity for the Southern cause, he looks after his own welfare by running the blockade for high stakes. There are foils for these two in Mclanie and Ashley Wilkes and in a good many other Southern idealists, and there are hosts of incidental officers, carpetbaggers, Negroes, and all, to serve as background...
...handsome, high-spirited, high-bosomed, green-eyed little devil. Living the artificial life of a plantation beauty, she was accomplished at taking other girls' beaux away from them, breaking up engagements, winning flattery from men by the time she was 15. She fell in love with shadowy Ashley Wilkes, a cultured, sensitive spirit among the robust, hard-riding plantation aristocrats, primarily because she could not get him to pay much attention to her. He was going to marry her friend Melanie, another thoughtful and isolated soul. Scarlett got Ashley alone at an all-day barbecue on a neighboring plantation...
...nursed her passion for Ashley through the hard War years, was determined to get him in the end. But Ashley's love for Melanie grew stronger, and both became quiet, strong, kindly, while Scarlett grew more venomous in her disappointment. At the fall of Atlanta, Scarlett, to keep her word to Ashley, took Melanie and Melanie's newborn baby through the retreat to the looted plantation. She found the countryside in ruins, her mother dead, her father mad. She almost starved, had to learn to do all the work that Negroes had formerly done for her. She killed...
...husband got mixed up with the Klan and was killed. Rhett Butler saved the other members, including the courtly Ashley, from hanging. Thereupon Scarlett married Rhett to share his fortune and to learn the secrets of his ruthlessness and success. But Rhett had made the full circle, come to despise money-grubbing even more than he had hated the exaggerated chivalry of the Old South. He put all his hopes in their daughter, was heartbroken at her death, developed a queer, tormented love and hatred for Scarlett. When Scarlett could finally get Ashley she found she did not want...