What a Life! (novel)
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What A Life! is a work of satirical fiction by Edward Verrall Lucas and George Morrow published in 1911 by Methuen & Co. The collage novel 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 Whiteleys General Catalogue (Whiteleys was a London department store at the time). It was included in the 1936 MOMA exhibition "Fantastic Art, Dada, Surrealism", being hailed as a pioneer work of surrealism after being the subject of an essay by Raymond Queneau.
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
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