How long does it take to read A Dictionary of Symbols?
Jean Chevalier, Alain Gheerbrant
A Dictionary of Symbols by Jean Chevalier, Alain Gheerbrant takes about 19 hours 26 minutes to read at 250 words a minute.
About 19 hours 26 minutes
A long haul
First published 1969. 1,060 pages, about 291,500 words.
39 days (about 6 weeks) at 30 minutes a day
Estimate based on 275 words per page.
At other speeds
| Slow, 150 words a minute | 32 hours 23 minutes |
| Average, 250 words a minute | 19 hours 26 minutes |
| Fast, 400 words a minute | 12 hours 9 minutes |
The page count is the median across 12 editions, so your copy may differ. How we calculate.
About the book
This remarkable and wide-ranging book is an inventory of symbols and the symbolic imagination. The editors and their fifteen contributors are drawn from a variety of scholarly backgrounds - including anthropology, ethnology, psychotherapy and art history. This diversity of approach is responsible for the book's unique character, a reflection of the multiplicity of symbols and signs and the phenomenal range of possible interpretations they offer. This book draws together folklore, literary and artistic sources, and focuses on the symbolic dimension of every colour, number, sound, gesture, expression or character trait that has benefitted from symbolic interpretation. The conscious and unconscious minds are explored, desire and dreams are treated alongside the known and the chronicled. Extraordinary in its range and eclecticism, this dictionary was originally published in French as the Dictionnaire des Symboles, and it is regarded as the standard work on the subject.
Subjects: Dictionaries French, Signes et symboles, Vietnamese, Mythologie, Italian, Dictionaries
