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Aack! You insult! Gone With the Wind is not a romance novel. It's an historical novel. It does not have a formulaic plot, there is no illicit sex (just a little illicit kissing), and no graphic sex scenes. Its historical scope is much wider than a romance novel's. Its "love story" is completely atypical of a romance novel's in that the heroine is not in love with the hero until the very end of the book, wastes her attention on a weakling, and there is no happy ending.

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I don't say it's great literature, but it's not a romance novel.