When she departed from her father's house forever, shehad left a home whose lines were as beautiful and flowingas a woman's body, as a ship in full sail; a pale pink stuccohouse built in the French colonial style, set high from theground in a dainty manner, approached by swirling stairs,banistered with wrought iron as delicate as lace; a dim, richhouse, gracious but aloof.
She had left not only that graceful dwelling but also theentire civilization that was behind the building of it, and shefound herself in a world that was as strange and different asif she had crossed a continent.
Here in north Georgia was a rugged section held by ahardy people. High up on the plateau at the foot of the BlueRidge Mountains, she saw rolling red hills wherever shelooked. with huge outcroppings of the underlying graniteand gaunt pines towering somberly everywhere.

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Mitchell margaret (1900-1949)American writer.Margaret Mitchell is the popular author of "Gonewith the Wind" 1936), thetale of Scarlett O'Hara and her tragedies and triumphs through the Civil War and Reconstruction. Mitchell was awarded the ulitzer Prize and the National Book Award for her novel.

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