Margaret Mitchell · 1936 · survival

Margaret Mitchell's epic of the Civil War South follows headstrong Scarlett O'Hara from the genteel plantation world of Tara through the fall and burning of Atlanta to the hard years of Reconstruction, her love for Ashley and her stormy marriage to Rhett Butler.

1. 1
   Tara

   On her family's Georgia cotton plantation, spoiled Scarlett flirts through the Twelve Oaks barbecue as war is declared and her world begins to end.

2. 2
   Atlanta

   Widowed and restless, Scarlett is drawn to the booming wartime city, where she meets Rhett Butler and endures the Union siege.

3. 3
   Tara

   As Atlanta burns, Rhett spirits her out of the inferno, then leaves her to drive a broken wagon through the night back to a plundered, starving Tara.

4. 4
   New Orleans

   Having saved Tara by any means necessary and married Rhett at last, Scarlett tastes a honeymoon of fragile luxury and happiness.

5. 5
   Atlanta

   Back in the city, wealth, the loss of Bonnie, and Rhett's final walking-out leave Scarlett alone, vowing to return to Tara, for tomorrow is another day.