To Have and Have Not | Related Titles
It is difficult to talk about To Have and Have Not outside the context of hard-boiled fiction, that distinctly American literary form that emerged in the early years of the twentieth century reaching its apogee during the 1930s and 1940s. The interest in and production of crime fiction grew so fast that almost overnight the detective story became a separate category in the magazine industry, even getting its own heading in The Reader's Guide to Periodical Literature as early as 1905. By the early 1930s, there had been a virtual explosion of hard-boiled fiction on news...
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