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To Have and Have Not

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To Have and Have Not follows Harry Morgan, a principled man driven to smuggle contraband between Cuba and Key West to support his family. Immersed in a world of wealthy yachtsmen and unexpected alliances, his journey unfolds into a poignant and complex love affair. Ernest Hemingway masterfully depicts the stark divides between the privileged and the impoverished, delivering a narrative that is both gritty and tender.
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This novel will appeal to readers interested in classic American literature, stories of moral complexity, and narratives exploring social divides through adventure and romance.

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Hemingway's famous novel about a man who runs contraband between Cuba and Key West in the 1930s is at once a realistic adventure tale and a moving, subtle portrait of an unlikely love affair. "Hemingway's gift for dialogue, for effective understatement, and for communicating such emotions as the tough allow themselves, has never been more conspicuous".--Times Literary Supplement.

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From one of the best writers in American literature, a classic novel about smuggling, intrigue, and love. To Have and Have Not is the dramatic story of Harry Morgan, an honest man who is forced into running contraband between Cuba and Key West as a means of keeping his crumbling family financially afloat.

His adventures lead him into the world of the wealthy and dissipated yachtsmen who throng the region and involve him in a strange and unlikely love affair. In this harshly realistic, yet oddly tender and wise novel, Hemingway perceptively delineates the personal struggles of both the "haves" and the "have nots" and creates one of the most subtle and moving portraits of a love affair in his oeuvre.

By turns funny and tragic, lively and poetic, remarkable in its emotional impact, To Have and Have Not is literary high adventure at its finest.

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INFORMATION

ISBN: 9780684818986

Publisher: Prentice Hall (a Pearson Education company)

Format: Paperback / softback

Date Published: 01 March 1996

Country: United Kingdom

Imprint: Prentice Hall & IBD

Audience: General / adult

DIMENSIONS

Width: 133.0mm

Height: 203.0mm

Weight: 268g

Pages: 272

About the Author

Ernest Hemingway did more to change the style of English prose than any other writer of his time. Publication of The Sun Also Rises and A Farewell to Arms immediately established Hemingway as one of the greatest literary lights of the twentieth century. His classic novel The Old Man and the Sea won the Pulitzer Prize in 1953. Hemingway was awarded the Nobel Prize for Literature in 1954. His life and accomplishments are explored in-depth in the PBS documentary film from Ken Burns and Lynn Novick, Hemingway. Known for his larger-than-life personality and his passions for bullfighting, fishing, and big-game hunting, he died in Ketchum, Idaho on July 2, 1961.

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