To Have and Have Not

To Have and Have Not

To Have and Have Not is a 1937 novel by Ernest Hemingway about Harry Morgan, a fishing boat captain who runs contraband between Cuba and Florida. The novel depicts Harry as an essentially good man who is forced into blackmarket activity by economic forces beyond his control. Initially, his fishing charter customer Mr. Johnson tricks Harry by slipping away without paying any of the money he owes him. Johnson then flees back to the mainland by airplane before Harry realizes what has happened. Harry then makes a critical decision to smuggle Chinese immigrants into Florida in order to feed his...
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Author:Ernest Hemingway
Genre:Fiction
Year published:1937
Number of editions:14

Author of To Have and Have Not

Ernest Hemingway
Ernest Hemingway
July 21, 1899 - July 2, 1961
Birthplace:Oak Park, Illinois
Education:Oak Park and River Forest High School

Ernest Miller Hemingway was an American author and journalist. His economical and understated style had a strong influence on 20th-century fiction, while his life of adventure and his public image influenced later generations. Hemingway produced most of his work between the mid-1920s and the...
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Additional works by Ernest Hemingway
BookGenre
A Farewell to Arms Fiction
The Sun Also Rises Novel
A Moveable Feast Autobiography
Across the River and Into the Trees Novel
For Whom the Bell Tolls War novel
The Old Man and the Sea Fiction
The Snows of Kilimanjaro Fiction
The Complete Short Stories of Ernest Hemingway: The Finca Vigía Edition Short story
Ernest Hemingway: The Collected Stories Short story
The Fifth Column and the First Forty-Nine Stories
Winner Take Nothing Fiction
Men Without Women Fiction
Three Stories and Ten Poems
The Garden of Eden Fiction
The Torrents of Spring Fiction
Islands in the Stream Novel
Under Kilimanjaro Memoir
The Gambler, the Nun, and the Radio
The Killers
Big Two-Hearted River
The Snows of Kilimanjaro
A Clean, Well-Lighted Place
The Capital of the World
Soldier's Home
Death in the Afternoon Fiction
Dateline: Toronto
True at First Light Fiction
Green Hills of Africa Autobiography
The Dangerous Summer Autobiography
The Undefeated
In Our Time Fiction
The Fifth Column and Four Stories of the Spanish Civil War Fiction
By-line, Ernest Hemingway
Hemingway on war War novel
Hemingway on hunting Autobiography
Conversations with Ernest Hemingway
Dear Papa, dear Hotch
Die Wahrheit im Morgenlicht. Eine afrikanische Safari.
alte Mann und das Meer, und andere Meisterwerke
God rest you merry gentlemen
Pour qui sonne le glas
Vieil Homme Et La Mer, Le
Neuges Du Kilimanjaro
50000 dollars
Relatos
On Paris
Izbrannye proizvedenii͡a︡
Verano Peligroso, El
Manner Ohne Frauen/Men Without Women
soleil se lève aussi
Les aventures de Nick Adams
Starik i more
En avoir ou pas
Adios a Las Armas / a Farewell to Arms
Fiesta: The Sun Also Rises
Die Stories
Śāstrasannyāsa
Îles à la dérive
Por Quien Doblan Las Campanas / for Whom the Bell Tolls
viejo y el mar
Major Works of Ernest Hemingway
Tener y no tener
Great Voices Audio Collection/Anais Nin, Ernest Hemingway, James Joyce, E.E. Cummings
Islas a La Deriva/Islands Drifted
Nouvelles complètes
Szigetek az áramlatban
Wem die Stunde schlägt
Die Nick Adams Stories
By-Line
El Toro Fiel / the Faithful Bull
quarantanove racconti
LA Quinta Columna
Schnee auf dem Kilimandscharo. Sonderausgabe. 6 Stories
Die Sturmfluten des Frühlings
Komu zvonia do hrobu
vye zanmi
Per chi suona la campana
Tod am Nachmittag
Il Vecchio E Il Mare
Storie della guerra de Spagna
Morte nel pomeriggio
Obras Completas:Por quién doblan las campanas, El viejo y el mar
alṭer un der yam
The essential Hemingway
folyo n at, a fa k koze
Wada'an Lilseelah
enduring Hemingway
neiges du Kilimandjaro
My old man
faithful bull
El Jardin Del Eden / the Garden of Eden
Zhan di zhong sheng
Los Asesinos
Pouir Qui Sonne Le Glas
Spanish War
Die schönsten Geschichten Afrikas
Iles a la dérive
Spanish earth
L'Etrange contrée
Proshchaĭ oruzhie!
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Characters in To Have and Have Not

Harry 'Steve' Morgan
Harry 'Steve' Morgan

Harry Morgan is a fictional character from To Have and Have Not.

Richard Gordon
Richard Gordon

Richard Gordon is a fictional character from To Have and Have Not.

Film adaptations of To Have and Have Not

The Breaking Point
The Breaking Point
Release date:October 6, 1950
Directed by:Michael Curtiz
Genre:Film noir, Crime Fiction, Drama
To Have and Have Not
To Have and Have Not
Release date:1944
Directed by:Howard Hawks
Genre:Thriller, Romance Film, Adventure, Black-and-white, War film, Film noir, Music, Romantic drama, Drama
Captain Khorshid
Captain Khorshid
Release date:1987
Directed by:Nasser Taghvaee

Literary Genres

Fiction
Fiction

Fiction is the form of any narrative or informative work that deals, in part or in whole, with information or events that are not factual, but...
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    How many pages is the book: "To Have and Have Not"?
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    The book contains 256 pages.
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    The book is labeled as: Fiction.
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