Gone with the Wind is a long-length fiction work.
Gone with the Wind is a novel by American writer Margaret Mitchell , first published in 1936 . This historical novel features a Bildungsroman or coming-of-age story , with the title taken from a poem written by Ernest Dowson . Gone with the Wind is the only novel by Mitchell published during her lifetime . A novel is any relatively long piece of written narrative fiction , normally in prose , and typically published as a book .