Colonel Richard Cantwell and Renata in Ch. 38
Across the River and into the Trees (1950)
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Across the River and into the Trees
Across the River and Into the Trees is a novel by American writer Ernest Hemingway, published by Charles Scribner's Sons in 1950, after first being serialized in Cosmopolitan magazine earlier that year. The title derives from the last words of U.S. Civil War Confederate General Thomas J. Jackson: “Let us cross over the river and rest under the shade of the trees.”Hemingway's novel opens with Colonel Richard Cantwell, 50 and with a heart problem, duck hunting in Trieste, Italy. It then presents his life in a lengthy flashback, with Cantwell thinking about a young Venetian woman, Renata, and his experiences during World War I.
Source: Across the River and into the Trees
Renata and Colonel Richard Cantwell in Ch. 12
Across the River and into the Trees (1950)
Source: Across the River and into the Trees (1950), Ch. 1 (the opening paragraph of the novel)
“What happens to people that love each other?”
'I suppose they have whatever they have and they are more fortunate than others. Then one of them gets the emptiness for ever.'
Colonel Richard Cantwell and Renata in Ch. 38
Across the River and into the Trees (1950)
“Tell me some true things about fighting.'
'Tell me you love me.”
'I love you,' the girl said. 'You can publish it in the Gazzettino if you like. I love your hard, flat body and your strange eyes that frighten me when they become wicked. I love your hand and all your other wounded places.'
Renata and Colonel Richard Cantwell in Ch. 12
Across the River and into the Trees (1950)
