Influenced in equal parts by the Great Depression, and the Marxist ideology that fuelled the Republicans in the Spanish Civil War (on which Hemingway is reporting at the time), it is a blunt exploration of one man’s struggles with economic hardships, the circumstances into which he is forced, and the decisions he is forced to make.One of his first novels set in the Western Hemisphere, To Have and Have Not tells the story of a fisherman forced by economic circumstances to run contraband from Cuba to the United States. It is a complex and layered narrative, combining two previously written short stories with a new novella.Ernest Hemingway is a winner of the Nobel Prize in Literature and Pulitzer Prize.Random House of Canada is proud to bring you classic works of literature in ebook form, with the highest quality production values. Find more today and rediscover books you never knew you loved.