Across the River and into the Trees

In the fall of 1948, Ernest Hemingway made his first extended visit to Italy in thirty years. His reacquaintance with Venice, a city he loved, provided the inspiration for Across the River and into the Trees, the story of Richard Cantwell, a war-ravaged American colonel stationed in Italy at the close of the Second World War, and his love for a young Italian countess. A poignant, bittersweet homage to love that overpowers reason, to the resilience of the human spirit, and to the worldweary beauty and majesty of Venice, Across the River and into the Trees stands as Hemingway's statement of defiance in response to the great dehumanizing atrocities of the Second World War. Hemingway's last full-length novel published in his lifetime, it moved John O'Hara in The New York Times Book Review to call him "the most important author since Shakespeare."

• To Have and Have Not (Scribner Classics)
• Islands in the Stream: A Novel (Scribner Classics)
• For Whom the Bell Tolls (Scribner Classics)
• Green Hills of Africa: The Hemingway Library Edition
• A Farewell to Arms: The Hemingway Library Edition
• A Moveable Feast: The Restored Edition
• The Old Man and the Sea
• The Sun Also Rises: The Hemingway Library Edition
• The Snows of Kilimanjaro and Other Stories (Scribner Classics)
• The Short Stories of Ernest Hemingway: The Hemingway Library Edition