《飘》是女作家玛格丽特·米切尔一生惟一的一部长篇小说,小说于1936年6月问世,1937年获得普利策*佳小说奖,风行至今;已经被翻译成四十多种文字,在世界各地出版,可以说是*畅销的美国小说之一,也被出版商誉为“一切时代的畅销小说”。小说讲述的故事发生于美国南北战争时期的佐治亚州,以几对男女青年的爱情历程为主线,反应了几个南方世族家族的兴衰史以及南北战争及南方战后重建的情形。女主角斯佳丽本来是一个娇生惯养的庄园小姐,经历了战争之后,终于蜕变为一个坚强的、自食其力的女商人,其性格具有自私、贪婪、坚定、敢爱敢恨等多重特点。是美国小说中*丰富、*饱满、*经典的女性形象之一。而小说中那段倾城之恋也成为美国小说史上*具浪漫传奇色彩的爱情故事。

Scarlett O'Hara was not beautiful, but men seldom realized it when
caught by hercharm as the Tarleton twins were. In her face were too
sharply blended the delicatefeatures of her mother, a Coast aristocrat
of French descent, and the heavy ones ofher 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 lashesand
slightly tilted at the ends. Above them, her thick black brows slanted
upward,cutting a startling oblique line in her magnoliawhite skin that
skin so prized bySouthern women and so carefully guarded with bonnets,
veils and mittens againsthot Georgia suns.Seated with Smart and Brent
Tarleton in the cool shade of the porch of Tara, herfather's plantation,
that bright April afternoon of 1861, she made a pretty picture.Her new
green floweredmuslin dress spread its twelve yards of billowing
materialover her hoops and exactly matched the flatheeled green morocco
slippers herfather had recently brought her from Atlanta. The dress set
off to perfection theseventeeninch waist, the smallest in three
counties, and the tightly fitting basqueshowed breasts well matured for
her sixteen years. But for all the modesty of herspreading skirts, the
demureness of hair netted smoothly into a chignon and thequietness 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 imposedupon her by her mother's gentle
admonitions and the sterner discipline of hermammy; her eyes were her
own.On either side of her, the twins lounged easily in their chairs,
squinting at thesunlight through tall mintgarnished glasses as they
laughed and talked, their longlegs, booted to the knee and thick with
saddle muscles, crossed negligently.Nineteen years old, six feet two
inches tall, long of bone and hard of muscle, withsunb
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PART ONE
PART TWO
PART THREE
PART FOUR
PART FIVE

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