[Asia Economy Reporter Park Byung-hee] The publisher Yeollin Books announced that they released the audiobook of Gone with the Wind on the 2nd.
Gone with the Wind is a novel published in 1936 by American author Margaret Mitchell. It depicts the love and fateful encounter between the protagonists Scarlett O'Hara and Rhett Butler amid the ruins of the American Civil War. Scarlett O'Hara, a naive 16-year-old girl, experiences an unexpected war, faces hunger and cold, and grows into a more mature person.
Mitchell received the Pulitzer Prize in 1937, and the novel was adapted into a film of the same name starring Vivien Leigh in 1939.
Yeollin Books' audiobook of Gone with the Wind faithfully captures the vast content spanning over 1,900 pages. The running time is 66 hours, making it the longest in South Korea.
To commemorate the audiobook release, Yeollin Books is holding an event offering a complete set of Gone with the Wind books and a 2021 diary as gifts.
So far, Yeollin Books has released audiobooks such as Jonas Jonasson's The Hundred-Year-Old Man Who Climbed Out the Window and Disappeared, Harper Lee's To Kill a Mockingbird, and Bernard Werber's Death.
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