‘my dear, I don’t give a damn.’Margaret Mitchell page-turning, sweeping American epic has been a classic for over eighty years. Beloved and thought by many to be the greatest of the American novels,Gone with the windis a story of love, hope and loss set against the tense historical background of the American Civil war. The lovers at the novella centre The selfish, privileged Scarlett O’Hara and rakish br>Rhett Butler are magnetic: pulling readers into the tangled narrative of a struggle to survive that cannot be forgotten.‘for sheer readability I Can think of nothing it must give way before’‘what makes some people come through catastrophes and others, apparently just as able, strong, and brave, go under? Margaret Mitchell.