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First Russian book edition. All of Hemingway's lifetime Russian editions printed before WWII are rare. One of 10 000 copies published. Evgeniia Kalashnikova (1906-1976) was the first who translated into Russian Fitzgerald's 'The Great Gatsby' (1965). She also translated works by Jack London, Bernard Shaw, William Thackeray, Charles Dickens, Theodore Dreiser, John Steinbeck, and Sinclair Lewis However. The translations of Hemingway's books showed her as a great translator of English prose. She prepared the first full translation of 'A Farewell to Arms'. Libman. # 6707. OCLC locates three copies of this edition in US: in the Princeton University, the University of Virginia and the University of South Carolina.

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. Hemingway's most intriguing and tantalizing themes make their appearance: man's battle against the cruelty of nature, the pressures of society on the individual, and the existential qualities of life in the modern world.