To Have And Have Not by Ernest Hemingway (EPUB)

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Ernest Hemingway’s biting commentary about life in the United States in the 1930s, To Have and Have Not is one of only two of Hemingway’s books set in the U.S. Harry Morgan is a good man forced by financial circumstances into smuggling Chinese immigrants from Cuba to Florida after his fishing-charter customer, Mr. Johnson, leaves him in Cuba without paying his fare. Originating from two short stories, “One Trip Across” and “The Tradesman’s Return,” To Have and Have Not employs multiple narrators, telling the story from various viewpoints, providing differing opinions and giving an inside view into those who “have” and those who “have not.” The Times Literary Supplement observed, “Hemingway’s gift for dialogue, for effective understatement, and for communicating such emotions the tough allow themselves, has never been more conspicuous.”HarperPerennial Classics brings great works of literature to life in digital format, upholding the highest standards in ebook production and celebrating reading in all its forms. Look for more titles in the HarperPerennial Classics collection to build your digital library.

User’s Reviews

Reviews from Amazon users which were colected at the time this book was published on the website:

⭐I haven’t read it yet; however, my roommate has and she says it a really good book.

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⭐Howard Hawks was right when he told Hemingway that To Have and Have Not was his worst novel. Being a big fan of the movie by the same name, I had to eventually read the book. Knowing what Hawks said about it, I was pretty sure it would be bad, but I never knew it could be that bad. None of the characters are interesting or relatable. The racist language that permeates this book makes one wonder who the expected audience was, and was Hemingway as racist as his characters?Probably the most accurate film adaption of this novel was 1958’s The Gun Runners with Audie Murphy. Gun Runners sticks pretty close to the book, but with a better outcome for the protagonist, and without the gratuitous racism. But Gun Runners cannot hod a candle to Hawks version.Now, I hear you complaining that this sounds more like a movie review than a book review, and I’m right there with you. If Hemingway had written To Have and Have Not as Howard Hawks did, it would have been a good novel worthy of praise. If he had written it as good as The Gun Runners script, I could say it was apretty good book. But he didn’t. That’s why I mentioned the better adaptions to his story.

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⭐The reviews should be about the purchase, and not a critical assessment of the work. The fact that it is racist when his other volumes rarely touch the subject should indicate something to anyone who is capable of rational thought.If you find Hemingway an interesting, yet flawed individual (are we not all?) then this is an essential read for Hemingway fans. This is the 21st century and a book written almost 100 years ago would be tremendously different than one written today.If you enjoy Hemingway, read it, it is history. If you are damaged by anything dangerous then please skip it and go straight to Hardy Boys, please.The book I have is in decent condition and printed in 1937. I enjoy having it in my collection.

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⭐Excellent read.

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⭐Ok, but was expecting it to be like the Bogart movie. It was mostly different than the movie. Hollywood for you!!

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⭐wasn’t my favorite Hemingway

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⭐This is sure to be Hemingway’s worst book, primarily for the reason that much of it is racist. The movie of the same name made from (a part of) the book is OUTSTANDING, however, and well worth anyone’s time.

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⭐OK, I give up. “Screw it,” as I’ve been yelled at for saying. Life is too short. 2000 books, that’s what I think I have left to read in my life. One a week; ambitious for sure but I’m trying. It’s why I rarely do book reviews when asked, wasting one of my precious weeks to wade through garbage. Sure, I do get surprised sometimes – “Pacific Viking” comes to mind – the exception that proves the rule. If I were paid for it, I’d do it. But I’m not.Nor am I paid to read Hemingway, instead manipulated by name recognition. Group-think does not only occur on social media; echo chambers as self-licking ice cream cones until everything is viscous and sticky. It also occurs in “art” – remember the story of the banana duck taped to a wall that sold for $120,000; the joyous prank of a mean-spirited ‘artist’ in his final mockery of his own trade; proving that art is less about “beauty is in the eye of the beholder” and more “art as a positional good”. Positional good being the idea in economics that something has value only in relation to is possession by others; others who others have said are genius. Isn’t the Nobel committee the end all, judges of what is good and true – and beautiful? Lets forget they once gave the Nobel Prize in Peace to Arafat, the world’s greatest terrorist. And the Nobel Prize in Literature once to Bob Dylan, a musician whose little limericks absent the catchy tunes are basically drivel. Hemingway won the Nobel Prize in literature. He must be good!!!I have recently tried to read “To Have and Have Not” – my fault, I know. I keep picking up Hemingway, long after I knew that his writing is grating. I have no idea what this ‘novel’ is about, beyond its crass dialogue, insulting language, and lack whatsoever of any descriptions which would make it beautiful or meaningful. Pointedly, for this novel – like all his others – I can’t find a way to care about the characters; there is virtually no beauty to be found; the plots are humdrum; and his style is grating. What could go wrong?So there you have it, a final judgement upon Hemingway. But who cares, right? He is a novelist upon the lips of everybody who think that saying something insightful about him ushers them into a special club of those who “get it”, somehow giving them the keys to the kingdom. And me, just a washed up novelist who nobody has heard of; a traveler of the lost places who thinks for himself and stands alone. What could be more insulting than that?

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