To Have and Have Not

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To Have and Have Not is a 1937 novel by Ernest Hemingway that portrays a Depression-era fishing boat captain drawn into smuggling and moral conflict in Key West and Cuba.


Statements (46)
Predicate Object
instanceOf novel
author Ernest Hemingway
countryOfOrigin United States
featuresCharacter Harry Morgan
Helene Bradley
Marie Morgan
Richard Gordon
firstEditionFormat hardcover
followedBy For Whom the Bell Tolls
genre crime fiction
novel
political novel
social novel
hasAdaptation The Breaking Point (1950 film)
The Gun Runners (1958 film)
To Have and Have Not (1944 film)
hasISBN 9780684818986
hasPart short stories previously published in magazines
hasSubject Cuban-American relations
fishing boat captains
labor and class issues
smuggling
literaryMovement modernism
mainCharacter Harry Morgan
mediaType print
narrativePerspective third-person narration
notableFor depiction of Depression-era Key West
political overtones
portrayal of working-class hardship
originalLanguage English
pageCount approximately 272 pages
partOfBibliography works of Ernest Hemingway
placeOfPublication New York City
precededBy Green Hills of Africa
publicationDate 1937
publisher Charles Scribner's Sons
setInLocation Cuba
Key West
setInPeriod Great Depression
structure composite novel
theme class struggle
crime and smuggling
economic inequality
moral conflict
poverty
survival

Referenced by (10)
Subject (surface form when different) Predicate
Ernest Hemingway
Howard Hawks
Humphrey Bogart
Jules Furthman ("To Have and Have Not (film)")
Lauren Bacall
Walter Brennan ("'To Have and Have Not' (1944 film)")
notableWork
Sheldon Leonard
actedIn
Ernest Hemingway Home and Museum
associatedWith
Green Hills of Africa
followedBy
To Have and Have Not ("To Have and Have Not (1944 film)")
hasAdaptation

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