In setting out to gather the town's daily news, George Willard, reporter for the Winesburg Eagle, ends ups discovering the town's deepest secrets as the townsfolk confide their hopes, dreams, and fears.

This is an expansion of the first dictionary of symbols to be based on literature, rather than on 'universal' psychological archetypes or myths. It explains and illustrates the literary symbols that we frequently encounter (such as swan, rose, moon, gold) and gives thousands of cross-references and quotations. The dictionary concentrates on English literature, but its entries range widely from the Bible and classical authors to the twentieth century,...