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To Have and Have Not

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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.
Harshly realistic, yet with one of the most subtle and moving relationships in the Hemingway oeuvre, To Have and Have Not is literary high adventure at its finest.

176 pages, Hardcover

First published January 1,1937
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havana, key west florida, florida, cuba, 

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176 pages, Hardcover
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January 1, 1999 by Scribner
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Ernest Miller Hemingway was an American novelist, short-story writer and journalist. Best known for an economical, understated style that significantly influenced later 20th-century writers, he is often romanticized for his adventurous lifestyle, and outspoken and blunt public image. Most of Hemingway's works were published between the mid-1920s and mid-1950s, including seven novels, six short-story collections and two non-fiction works. His writings have become classics of American literature; he was awarded the 1954 Nobel Prize in Literature, while three of his novels, four short-story collections and three nonfiction works were published posthumously.
Hemingway was raised in Oak Park, Illinois. After high school, he spent six months as a cub reporter for The Kansas City Star before enlisting in the Red Cross. He served as an ambulance driver on the Italian Front in World War I and was seriously wounded in 1918. His wartime experiences formed the basis for his 1929 novel A Farewell to Arms. He married Hadley Richardson in 1921, the first of four wives. They moved to Paris where he worked as a foreign correspondent for the Toronto Star and fell under the influence of the modernist writers and artists of the 1920s' "Lost Generation" expatriate community. His debut novel The Sun Also Rises was published in 1926.
He divorced Richardson in 1927 and married Pauline Pfeiffer. They divorced after he returned from the Spanish Civil War, where he had worked as a journalist and which formed the basis for his 1940 novel For Whom the Bell Tolls. Martha Gellhorn became his third wife in 1940. He and Gellhorn separated after he met Mary Welsh Hemingway in London during World War II. Hemingway was present with Allied troops as a journalist at the Normandy landings and the liberation of Paris. He maintained permanent residences in Key West, Florida, in the 1930s and in Cuba in the 1940s and 1950s. On a 1954 trip to Africa, he was seriously injured in two plane accidents on successive days, leaving him in pain and ill health for much of the rest of his life. In 1959, he bought a house in Ketchum, Idaho, where, in mid-1961, he died of suicide.

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EZ_Sone
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April 17,2025
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من الروايات القليلة التي لم تترك لدى اى انطباع عقب الانتهاء منها ، حيث أن كما جاء في النبذة التعريفية عن الرواية انها تناقش مرحلة الكساد فى فترة الثلاثينات فى مدينة كي وست وما صاحبها من فقر وانحلال نتيجة تردي الاحوال الاقتصادية ولكن اعتقد ان الكاتب لم يستطيع ان يصور تلك الاشياء بشكل جيد وكامل ، فربما حالة واحدة لربان سفينة وأسرته لا تكفى لذلك وكان من الممكن ان يسلط الضوء على حياة المزيد من الاسر حتى تخرج الصورة بشكل أفضل .. بالاضافة ان الشخصيات المتعددة والتى كانت موجودة بصورة مبعثرة زادت من تشتت افكارى أثناء قراتها وكأن تداخل الاحداث وعدم وضوحها لم يكفى الكاتب .. باختصار وجدتها سطحية للغاية بالنسبة للهدف الرئيسى الذى اراد الكاتب انه يصله للقاري وربما كان صغر حجمها هو السبب الوحيد الذي جعلنى قادر على انهاءها .. لم تعجبنى
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GeekyTechnician
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April 17,2025
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Less of a novel and more loosely connected short stories. I thought this was a plague of modern fiction but this is from 1937. I liked the writing style, some themes (economic inequality for one) and occasionally scenes. I didn't like the "plot", the machoism, the overt racism (funnily, "fuck" was a no go but slures were fine), the main characters.

I was glad this book was so short, but the sparse writing style was good enough that want to read more Hemingway. I read "A Farewell to Arms" ages ago and didn't like it, but I'm curious about "The Sun Also Rises".
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به طور اتفاقی این کتاب دستم افتاد و خب اولین کتابیه از همینگوی که خوندم. روایتش عجیب بود برام و حتی مورد علاقه م هم نبود ولی خب اینقدر خوب بود که همراهم کنه. توصیفاتش و تغییر زاویه دید و راوی ماجرا همه خیلی جالب بودن. فقط فصل یکی مونده به آخر که آدم های توی قایق ها و زندگیهاشون رو توضیح میداد اصلا برام جالب نبود و یه چندتا صفحه آخر فصل رو رد کردم. اصلا خوب نبود اونجاش، خواننده ذهنش درگیر سرنوشت هری مورگانه و اون وقت باید یه سری موارد غیر مرتبط در مورد آدمهای دیگه بخونه.
ترجمه هم به روز و واضح نبود، یه سری اصطلاحات ماهیگیری و غیره هم لازم بود تو پاورقی توضیح داده بشن.
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IceCreamScene
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April 17,2025
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کتاب های همینگوی رو دوست دارم چون منو یاد چخوف میندازه(فقط یاد، نه بیشتر!)
این که توی داستان یهو میپرید یه جای دیگه برام اعصاب خرد کن بود ولی وقتی یهو به هم ربطشون میداد خیلی لذت بخش میشد^_^
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SPkitten9
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April 17,2025
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Maybe not his best (that I've read- not got through them all yet) but still pretty good I thought when I gave it a go a while back. Harry Morgan, the main character, is memorable and is one of those gruff, snarling, no nonsense, messed up characters you used to see in the old movies. Not someone you'd want round for dinner maybe- he'd probably punch a guest and then turn over the table- but great to read about from the safety of a comfy armchair. It all starts quite slowly and then really heats up later and turns into a bit of an action/thriller, with a load of mayhem and terror on the high seas...
Its nowhere near as good as The Old Man and the Sea or For Whom the Bell Tolls, and isn't as well constructed or as artistic as those works and some of his others, but its still pretty readable and has some great moments of tension and drama. I remember the end of the book being quite unusual and slightly confusing, but overall, I found this slim novel to be an entertaining little thriller, if not quite in line quality-wise with some of Ernie's greater works.
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John-O-Mon
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April 17,2025
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Ernest Hemingway (1899-1961), best-known for his 1952 book “The Old Man and the Sea,” winner of the Pulitzer Prize in 1953 and the Nobel Prize in Literature in 1954, wrote “To Have and Have Not,” a 174-page book about a fisherman Harry Morgan during the depression in three parts. While a film was made which was called “To Have and Have Not,” and the main character in the film is a man called Harry Morgan who owns a fishing boat, the film is otherwise in no way like Hemingway’s book.
In the film, Morgan is a fishing boat captain who rents out his boat on the island of Martinique in 1940, after the fall of France, when the free French are fighting against the Vichy Government. It is about the onset of World War II. Lauren Bacall plays a very sexy and beautiful young 22-year-old girl stranded in Martinique because she hasn’t money to leave the island. Walter Brennan is an old drunk who adds humor to the terrible events of the war and a very strong sense of friendship that is hard to forget even after the film is over.
Hemingway’s story occurs before 1937 in the American Keys, not in Martinique, and no mention is made of a war. Morgan has a fishing boat, but only in part 1, is very poor, and makes money by crooked dealings. In part 1, he agrees to smuggle Cubans and kills a man. In part 2, he is smuggling alcohol, is shot and looses his arm and his boat. In part 3, he borrows a boat to smuggle Cubans and is shot in the stomach. He is married and has three female children. There is no role for Lauren Bacall because he does not engage in adultery. There is a rummy in part 1 only, but his relationship to Morgan is different than in the film and his actions are not humorous.
In short, the book is about people who suffer because they “have not” during the years of the depression. It is characteristically well-written.
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FRESHShaZaM
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April 17,2025
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This book is widely considered one of Hemingways worst, and there's even a tale floating around that he told director Howard Hawks that he thought it was a pile of shit. It's not, though. It's neither his worst nor a pile of shit. Nor is it his best. But there is much to admire in To Have and Have Not, and those things are amplified by Will Patton's award worthy vocal performance in the audio version.

Patton's quiet, simmering rhythm, and his hushed tones -- even in the most violent moments -- bring out the story's melancholy, its hopelessness, its pity, its hope.

And it makes it much easier to see the love and respect Hemingway has for his characters in a way that might not be so clear when the words are sitting stagnant on a page. It really feels like this book, more than any except The Old Man and the Sea, was meant to be heard. Pick up your copy and read yourself Chapter 12, then flip over and read yourself Chapter 19 right away. Read it slowly and calmly. Can you feel the intentional flow? Can you feel the way Hemingway loves Marie?

He does. Hemingway loves Marie the way he loves Pilar in For Whom The Bell Tolls, and it is beautiful -- especially the way its read by Will Patton.

For me, this time, To Have and Have Not was about Marie, and by the end I am sure she's going to be just fine. I really wish Hemingway had gone and told us more about Marie Morgan. But I love what he have.
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April 17,2025
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Roman împărțit în doar trei anotimpuri, dintre care lipsește vara, A avea și nu a avea este o experiență fascinanta , tragică și totodată amuzantă; Hemingway este un expert in arta dialogului , a explorării firii umane și a aventurii Spontaneitate și alternanța acțiunii nu lipsește, cadrul natural și atmosfera poetica a fiecărui capitol releva un mare talent scriitoricesc așa cum bine îl știm pe clasicul Hemingway; întotdeauna sincer și real, personajele create de marele scriitor nu întâmpină niciodată piedici sau timiditate în a exprima exact ceea ce sunt.
O carte numai potrivită de citit în vacanță, în care se reflecta albastrul cerului canicular, o începusem iarna, dar nu mi s-a potrivit la vremea respectivă, azi mă încântă, încă o parcurg...
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