Gone with the Wind

The story is set in Clayton County and Atlanta, both in Georgia, during the American Civil War and Reconstruction Era. It depicts the struggles of young Scarlett O'Hara, the spoiled daughter of a well-to-do plantation owner, who must use every means at her disposal to claw her way out of poverty after her family’s plantation is pillaged during the American civil war. Gone with the Wind was popular with American readers from the outset and was the top American fiction bestseller in 1936 and 1937. It still ranks as the second favorite book by American readers, just behind the Bible. As of 2010, more than 30 million copies have been printed in the United States and abroad. TIME magazine critics, Lev Grossman and Richard Lacayo, included the novel on their list of the 100 best English-language novels from 1923 to the present. In 2003 the book was listed at number 21 on the BBC's The Big