It’s an irresistible moonlight-and-magnolia romance. And it’s not just Rhett and Scarlet’s tumultuous love story – it’s Ms. Mitchell’s love note to the South as well. Indeed, the novel is as much an iconic ode to the South as it is a romance between Rhett and Scarlett. So electric was the novel's fraught romance that the 1939 Oscar-winning film version of the book starring Vivien Leigh as O’Hara and Clark Gable as Butler is still considered by many to be one of the greatest movies (and love stories) of all time.
