Download or read book To Have and to Hold written by Mary Johnston and published by Independently Published. This book was released on 2019-04-11 with total page 286 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This was the #1 best-selling novel in the United States in 1900, made into movies several times in subsequent years. It is set in colonial North America, beginning in the year 1621. A new movie adapted from the book was filmed in 2011.The dialog is Early Modern English, somewhat similar to Shakespeare's writings, not contemporary English but similar enough to be understood. The narration is almost modern English, easily understood.