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| Author | Alice Randall |
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| Language | English |
| Publisher | Houghton Mifflin |
Publication date | 1 May 2001 |
| Publication place | United States |
| Media type | Print (hardback & paperback) |
| Pages | 210 pp (first edition, hardback) |
| ISBN | 0-618-10450-X (first edition, hardback) |
| OCLC | 45002181 |
| 813/.6 21 | |
| LC Class | PS3568.A486 W56 2001 |
The Wind Done Gone (2001) is the first novel written by Alice Randall. It is a historical novel that tells an alternative account of the story in the American novel Gone with the Wind (1936) by Margaret Mitchell. While the story of Gone with the Wind focuses on the life of the daughter of a wealthy slave owner, Scarlett O'Hara, The Wind Done Gone tells the story of the life of slaves, Cynara, an enslaved woman during the same time period and events.
The title is an African American Vernacular English play on the original's title. Cynara's name comes from the Ernest Dowson poem Non sum qualís eram bonae sub regno Cynarae,[citation needed] a line from which ("I have forgot much, Cynara! gone with the wind") was the origin of the title of Mitchell's novel.