The Reader's Encyclopedia

This volume includes famous characters and plots in legend, fiction, drama, opera, and poetry, together with dates and principal works of important authors, literary and journalistic terms and familiar allusions. Entries have been chosen of significant figures, movements, and terms in aesthetics, science, philosophy, economics and politics. Freud, Jung, Karl Marx, Lenin, The New Deal, the stream-of-consciousness tendency in fiction, and even futurism and surrealism have received due consideration. The field of art and music are extensively covered, incorporating important twentieth-century additions.