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. . . but THE MAKING OF A GREAT MOTION PICTURE comes pretty close. When you view this 7-minute short--essentially one of those extended trailers the 1930s and 1940s were known for--you get the idea that ANTHONY ADVERSE was pretty hot stuff in its time (both in print form and on the big screen, though this is not on Kindle yet). Sadly for ANTHONY, a little film called GONE WITH THE WIND came along three years later, out-soaping ANTHONY ADVERSE at its own game. Whereas ANTHONY creeps around the periphery of history, touching upon the French Revolution, the African Slave Trade, and French "Emporer" Napoleon Bonaparte, among other things, GONE WITH THE WIND is much more focused--on the Antebellum (or Pre-War) South, the Civil War, and Reconstruction. Additionally, the are few forgettable characters in GWTH, but fewer memorable ones in ANTHONY ADVERSE. Novelist Hervey Allen was no Charles Dickens; he doesn't even rank up there is that prolific Frenchman, Balzac. But this preview makes it sound like he should.