My dear I dont give a damn.Margaret Mitchells pageturning 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 Wind is a story of love hope and loss set against the tense historical background of the American Civil War. The lovers at the novels centre the selfish privileged Scarlett OHara and rakish Rhett Butler are magnetic pulling readers into the tangled narrative of a struggle to survive that cannot be forgotten.WINNER OF NATIONAL BOOK AWARD AND PULITZER PRIZEFor sheer readability I can think of nothing it must give way before The New YorkerWhat makes some people come through catastrophes and others apparently just as able strong and brave go under Margaret Mitchell