Description
Gone with the Wind by Margaret Mitchell is a sweeping historical novel set in Georgia during the American Civil War and its aftermath. Scarlett O’Hara, the beautiful and headstrong daughter of a wealthy plantation owner, sees her privileged life destroyed by the war and Sherman’s March to the Sea.
Forced to confront poverty and the collapse of the world she has known, Scarlett uses determination, resourcefulness and whatever means she can find to secure her survival. Against the upheaval of war and Reconstruction, her relationships, ambitions and fierce attachment to her former way of life shape the course of her life.
A good choice for readers who enjoy historical fiction, epic family sagas, romance and stories set against major periods of social and political upheaval.
