- What a Life! (novel)
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name = What a Life!
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author =E. V. Lucas & George Morrow
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country =United Kingdom
language = English
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genre = Satirical,Autobiographical novel
publisher =Methuen
release_date = August 17, 1911
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media_type = Print (Hardback &Paperback )
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isbn = NA
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followed_by = none"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
copyright ed in theUnited Kingdom , it is in thepublic domain in theUSA .Release details
*1911, UK, Methuen & Co. (ISBN NA), Pub date 17 August 1911, hardback (First edition)
*1975, USA, Dover Publications (ISBN 0-486-23133-X), Pub date ? ? 1975, paperback
*1987, USA, Dover Publications (ISBN 0-486-23133-X), Pub date 20 May 1987, paperback (reissue)
*1987, UK, William Collins Sons & Co. (ISBN 0-00-217796-X), Pub date 19 October 1987, hardbackReferences
*cite book | title=What A Life! | last=Lucas | first=E.V. | authorlink=E. V. Lucas | coauthor=George Morrow | publisher=Methuen | location=London | date=17 August 1911
*cite web | title=Julie L'Enfant reviews Maxwell's The Victorian Illustrated Book | url=http://www.19thc-artworldwide.org/spring_04/reviews/lenf_vict.html | accessdate=2006-12-15External links
* [http://purl.oclc.org/NET/scruss/what_a_life What A Life!] Online text with original illustrations. Public domain in the USA.
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