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classic, it has done so as much by its popular appeal as by any aesthetic merit. The components of its record-breaking success include all the classic ingredients of popular romance wrapped in the irresistible trappings of historical adventure and glamour-the hurtling saga of sectional catastrophe and rebirth, the nostalgia for a lost civilization, the green Irish eyes of a captivating and unruly Miss, and the langorous, steel-sprung dynamism of her Rhett Butler. But, if the novel fails to transcend its indebtedness to popular culture and to a sentimental female tradition, it nonetheless betrays a complexity that distinguishes it from the standard mass-market historical melodrama.' The extraordinary overnight success of Gone With The Wind testifies to the immediacy with which it engaged the American imagination. Critical acclaim, which likened it to Vanity Fair and War and Peace, as well as popular sales, rapidly established the saga of Scarlett O'Hara as a significant addition to the national culture.2 Scarlett and her world entered the