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Hardcover. Condition: Good. Dust Jacket Condition: Fair. Pocket Library of the World's Essential Knowledge: Outline of Literature, Part 1 & Part 2, Volumes VII and VIII. Set of 2. Very good books w/ mixed grade jackets. 1929. Funk & Wagnalls Company, New York & London. Unmarked. Hardcover Books, Volumes VII & VIII. Very Good red cloth boards; clean and bright. Secure bindings w/ intact hinges. Text unmarked. Split-grade dust jackets: Very Good Volume VIII dust jacket w/ only minor wear; Fair Volume VII dust jacket w/ large tear removing most of the jacket spine as well as a large back section. Small Format, 4.25x6.25". Gerald E. SeBoyar's two-volume survey of continental European fiction & drama, from 18th-century French novels to Tolstoy & Gogol, issued in Funk & Wagnalls' 1929 Pocket Library series w/ its Art Deco lamp of knowledge jackets. Ships in box from the USA, quickly & w/care. _____________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________ SYNOPSIS & HISTORY: Pocket Library of the World's Essential Knowledge: Outline of Literature, Part 1 & Part 2, Volumes VII and VIII traces the evolution of continental European fiction and drama, focusing on major literary movements of the modern era. Chapters analyze French and Russian novels alongside other European masterworks, featuring works by authors such as Prevost, Voltaire, Goethe, and Tolstoy. Textured red cloth boards carry gilt lettering on the spines, wrapped in green and cream graphic paper jackets displaying the series standard lamp of knowledge illustration. Associate Professor of General Literature Gerald E. SeBoyar of New York University compiled the literary outline for Funk & Wagnalls in 1929. The work serves as a historical record of what the early twentieth-century academic establishment deemed essential literary knowledge for the American public. …