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What a Life! (novel)

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Language
  
English

Originally published
  
17 August 1911

Country
  
United Kingdom

Publication date
  
17 August 1911

Publisher
  
Methuen Publishing

Media type
  
Print (hardback & paperback)

Authors
  
Edward Verrall Lucas, George Morrow

Genres
  
Satire, Autobiographical Fiction

Similar
  
Works by Edward Verrall Lucas, Other books

What A Life! is a work of satirical fiction by Edward Verrall Lucas and George Morrow published in 1911. The book is best known for its inventive narrative technique: the story takes the reader through the life of an upper-class British gentleman, with the plot being dictated by the book's illustrations, which the authors took from a copy of Whiteley's General Catalogue (Whiteley's was a London department store at the time). It was included in the 1936 MOMA exhibition "Fantastic Art, Dada, and Surrealism".

Though the book is still copyrighted in the United Kingdom, it is in the public domain in the US.

Release details

  • 1911, UK, Methuen & Co. (ISBN NA), Pub date August 17, 1911, hardback (First edition)
  • 1975, US, Dover Publications (ISBN 0-486-23133-X), Pub date ? ? 1975, paperback
  • 1987, US, Dover Publications (ISBN 0-486-23133-X), Pub date May 20, 1987, paperback (reissue)
  • 1987, UK, William Collins Sons & Co. (ISBN 0-00-217796-X), Pub date October 19, 1987, hardback
  • 2015, FR, Editions Prairial (ISBN 979-10-93699-05-9), July 1, 2015, paperback
  • References

    What a Life! (novel) Wikipedia