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In nov 1948, Ernest Hemingway made his first extended trip to Italy in thirty years. His reacquaintance with Venice, a city he loved, provided the inspiration for Over the River and in to the Trees, the story of Richard Cantwell, a war-ravaged National colonel stationed in Italy at the close of the 2Nd World War, and his love for a Italian countess. A touching, bittersweet homage to enjoy that overpowers reason, for the strength of the human nature, and for the worldweary elegance and majesty of Venice, Over the River and in to the Woods stands as Hemingway's statement of defiance in reaction to the truly amazing dehumanizing atrocities of the 2Nd World-War. Hemingway's last full length novel published in his lifetime, it transferred John O'Hara in The Brand New York Times Book Review to contact him "the most crucial writer since Shakespeare."