Gone With the Wind

It was on this day in 1936 that the novel Gone with the Wind by
Margaret Mitchell was first published. When she handed the manuscript
over to editors, it was in terrible shape, with more than 1,000 pages of
faded and dog-eared paper, poorly typed and with penciled changes. But
they loved the story. They asked Mitchell to change the original title,
"Tomorrow Is Another Day," because at the time there were already 13
books in print with the word "tomorrow" in the title. They also asked
her to change the main character's name from Pansy to Scarlett.

Mitchell later said, "I just couldn't believe that a Northern publisher
would accept a novel about the War Between the States from the Southern
point of view." But Gone with the Wind broke all publication records. It
sold 50,000 copies sold in one day, a million copies in six months, and
2 million by the end of the year. The sales of the book were even more
impressive because it was in the middle of the Great Depression. The
hardcover of the novel cost $3 a copy, which was fairly expensive at the
time. Its sales injected millions of dollars into the publishing
industry. The year it came out, employees at the Macmillan publishing
company received Christmas bonuses for the first time in nearly a
decade.

My faja sent this to me. Makes sense that it was called Tomorrow is Another Day.. Pansy O'hara? What were they thinking? That sounds just so wrong. Scarlett is 839107589105896489170759017548978910 times better, agreed?