Author | E. V. Lucas & George Morrow |
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Country | United Kingdom |
Language | English |
Genre | Satirical, Autobiographical novel |
Publisher | Methuen |
Publication date
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17 August 1911 |
Media type | Print (hardback & paperback) |
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.