Oh, yeah, we have achieved perfection and are far removed from that world...

One good thing: In an entertainment field plagued with remakes (Auten and the Brontes died far too young and left too few books behind and do we really need another Little Women?), we will not be subjected to endless versions of GWTW.

One note: that schmoopy preface was not in the book. Margaret Mitchell was a daughter of the South. What was David O Selznick's excuse?

T he first section is pretty biblical.  Later, there are adventure tales.