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From: The Washington Post
Date: 20010515
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"The Wind Done Gone" may be derivative [Free for All, May 5], but it is difficult to see how it could be more derivative than "Gone With the Wind" itself.

Margaret Mitchell adapted the principal characters of William Makepeace Thackeray's "Vanity Fair" and transferred them from the Napoleonic wars to the American Civil War.

"Gone With the Wind" is one of the most successful novels of the past century, but it is hard to see how it could not have been -- given the genius that Mr. Thackeray had embodied in "Vanity Fair" nearly a century earlier.

GEORGE W. HILTON

Columbia

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