Across the River and Into the Trees

Across the River and Into the Trees is a novel by Ernest Hemingway. The title is derived from the last words of US General Thomas J. (Stonewall) Jackson.

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Ernest Hemingway - Thomas J. (Stonewall) Jackson

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Hemingway himself described the novel to reporter Lillian Ross in a famous 1949 interview, while he was preparing to revise the first draft: "Book start slow, then increase in pace till it becomes impossible to stand. I bring emotion up to where you can't stand it, then we level off, so we won't have to provide oxygen tents for the readers. Book is like engine. We have to slack her off gradually."

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