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# Cross-Cultural Insights Comprehensive Symbol Coverage Easy Alphabetical Navigation The Penguin Dictionary of Symbols (Dictionary, Penguin)

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## Summary

> 📖 Decode the world’s symbols—because knowledge is the ultimate power move.

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## Key Features

- • **Unlock Hidden Meanings:** Decode literary symbols and cultural allegories with ease.
- • **Streamlined Research Tool:** Alphabetically organized for quick, hassle-free lookup.
- • **Trusted Academic Companion:** Highly rated by literature students and professionals alike.
- • **Expand Your Intellectual Arsenal:** Perfect for enriching essays, assignments, and creative projects.
- • **Global Symbolism at Your Fingertips:** Explore diverse cultural references from mythology to psychology.

## Overview

The Penguin Dictionary of Symbols, 2nd Revised Edition, is a definitive reference guide offering comprehensive, cross-cultural insights into symbols used in literature, mythology, and psychology. With an easy-to-navigate alphabetical format and acclaimed academic reliability, it’s an essential tool for students, professionals, and curious minds seeking to deepen their understanding of symbolic language.

## Description

Buy The Penguin Dictionary of Symbols (Dictionary, Penguin) 2nd Revised ed. by Gheerbrant, Alain, Chevalier, Jean, Buchanan-Brown, John (ISBN: 9780140512540) from desertcart's Book Store. Everyday low prices and free delivery on eligible orders.

Review: Great book for my English Literature degree - I have just purchased the dictionary of symbols as a reference tool for my English Literature Degree, helping me understand literary analogies, allegories and some allusions (such as mythology) and for use as assignment quotes. So far it has been fantastic for quotes as it is surprisingly hard to find academically acclaimed guides to symbolism via online searches... believe me I've tried! OK.. so it doesn't have pictures, you really don't need them, and all entries are alphabetically listed so really easy to find what you need. It spans many different subjects and cultures for its references, and is really interesting (I have found myself reading articles I didn't need to). Some entries are short and concise as they don't have many different meanings, however others such as serpents have an longer entry looking at a wealth of meanings including biblical and psychological. Maybe not for everyone, but I honestly don't know how I have coped without this book.
Review: If i knew id like it so much id would have bought the hard cover one - Information in this book is super interesting. It includes symbolic info about colours, numbers, animals, and many other stuff.

## Technical Specifications

| Specification | Value |
|---------------|-------|
| Best Sellers Rank | 23,541 in Books ( See Top 100 in Books ) 3 in Social Sciences References 92 in Folklore (Books) 119 in Dictionaries & Thesauri |
| Customer reviews | 4.5 4.5 out of 5 stars (613) |
| Dimensions  | 19.3 x 13.16 x 5.28 cm |
| Edition  | 2nd Revised ed. |
| ISBN-10  | 0140512543 |
| ISBN-13  | 978-0140512540 |
| Item weight  | 798 g |
| Language  | English |
| Print length  | 1184 pages |
| Publication date  | 26 Sept. 1996 |
| Publisher  | Penguin |

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## Customer Reviews

### ⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐ Great book for my English Literature degree
*by L***4 on 18 February 2013*

I have just purchased the dictionary of symbols as a reference tool for my English Literature Degree, helping me understand literary analogies, allegories and some allusions (such as mythology) and for use as assignment quotes. So far it has been fantastic for quotes as it is surprisingly hard to find academically acclaimed guides to symbolism via online searches... believe me I've tried! OK.. so it doesn't have pictures, you really don't need them, and all entries are alphabetically listed so really easy to find what you need. It spans many different subjects and cultures for its references, and is really interesting (I have found myself reading articles I didn't need to). Some entries are short and concise as they don't have many different meanings, however others such as serpents have an longer entry looking at a wealth of meanings including biblical and psychological. Maybe not for everyone, but I honestly don't know how I have coped without this book.

### ⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐ If i knew id like it so much id would have bought the hard cover one
*by K***E on 7 August 2024*

Information in this book is super interesting. It includes symbolic info about colours, numbers, animals, and many other stuff.

### ⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐ Brilliant reference book
*by D***D on 28 July 2024*

One to have handy if you're interested in this sort of thing

## Frequently Bought Together

- The Penguin Dictionary of Symbols (Dictionary, Penguin)
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- A Dictionary of Symbols: Revised and Expanded Edition (New York Review Books Classics)

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