Saugata Roy

An epic novel depicting the southern culture that is "Gone with the wind" by the northern conqueror. It depicted slalvery from a different angle, not the way we look at the issue. Scarlet's passionate love for Rhett Butler is the binding force of the novel and inspite of its vivid description civil war, decline of affluent soithern society, cultural conflict in between north and south, slavery and racism, it a classic romantic epic of Scarlet and Butler.

An epic novel. A masterly creation that dealt skillfully human passion, lust for life and frustation. Anna's paaionate love for Vronsky is a rebellion to static lifeless the then russian society.