What a Life! (novel)

Infobox Book
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
preceded_by = none
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 copyrighted in the United Kingdom, it is in the public domain in the USA.

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, hardback

References

*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=2006-12-15

External links

* [http://purl.oclc.org/NET/scruss/what_a_life What A Life!] Online text with original illustrations. Public domain in the USA.