'My dear, I don't give a damn.'Margaret Mitchell s 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 Wind is a story of love, hope and loss set against the tense historical background of the American Civil War. The lovers at the novel s centre the selfish, privileged Scarlett O Hara and rakish Rhett Butler are magnetic: pulling readers into the tangled narrative of a struggle to sur ...