Over the River and Into the Woods (1950) is a novel by the American writer Ernest Hemingway. The title is derived from the last words of American Civil War Confederate General Thomas J. "Stonewall" Jackson.
The main character comes to an environment where violence, greed, and conflicts between people reign, and gradually becomes involved in the fight against injustice.
The Youth of Toma Ivić (1928) is an autobiographical novel by Mate Ujević. It depicts the spiritual wanderings, youthful crises, and final religious conversion of a sensitive young man in the Herzegovina-Dalmatia setting.
Mark Twain worked in parallel on three mysterious manuscripts set in the past and in three different settings, with the same diabolically charming young Satan, after whose appearance among people, unusual supernatural events occur.