Ernest Hemingway, Across the River and Into the Trees

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Ernest Hemingway published

Across the River and Into the Trees

(1950) after a decade during which he had published no new fiction. His only book between

For Whom the Bell Tolls

(1940) and

Across the River and Into the Trees

was

Men at War

(1942), an anthology of war stories. Deriving its title from the last words of US Civil War General Thomas J. (Stonewall) Jackson,

Across the River and Into the Trees

tells the story of the last days of Colonel Richard Cantwell, who has survived two world wars only to die of natural causes.

Hemingway had struggled during the 1940s to get back into the writing of fiction after his traumatic service as a war correspondent during Wolrd War II. Returning to Cuba, he began one project that would eventually result in the posthumous publication of The Garden of

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Citation: Fleming, Robert E.. "Across the River and Into the Trees". The Literary Encyclopedia. First published 30 June 2002 [https://www.litencyc.com/php/sworks.php?rec=true&UID=6859, accessed 19 March 2024.]

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