To Have and Have Not

By Ernest Hemingway

An honest man turns smuggler, navigating danger and unexpected love.

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192 pages

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Harry Morgan, a man of integrity, is driven to smuggling between Cuba and Key West to support his family. Entangled with affluent yachtsmen, he faces moral dilemmas and an unexpected romance. As he navigates the treacherous waters of wealth and desperation, Harry's journey reveals the stark contrasts between the privileged and the struggling. Will he find a way to keep his family afloat without losing himself? This tale of adventure and love explores the fine line between survival and compromise, leaving readers questioning the true cost of necessity.

From the publisher

A Scribner Classics Edition 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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