What a Life! (novel) explained

What a Life!
Author:	E. V. Lucas & George Morrow
Country:	United Kingdom
Language:	English
Genre:	Satirical, Autobiographical novel
Publisher:	Methuen
Release Date:	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.

Release details

• 1911, UK, Methuen & Co. (ISBN NA), Pub date August 17, 1911, hardback (First edition)
• 1975, US, Dover Publications, Pub date ? ? 1975, paperback
• 1987, US, Dover Publications, Pub date May 20, 1987, paperback (reissue)
• 1987, UK, William Collins Sons & Co., Pub date October 19, 1987, hardback
• 2015, FR, Quelle vie!, Editions Prairial, July 1, 2015, paperback
• 2018, US, Black Scat Books, Pub date May 16, 2018, paperback

References

• Book: Lucas, E.V. . E. V. Lucas

. What A Life! . E. V. Lucas . George Morrow . Methuen . London . August 17, 1911 .

• Web site: Julie L'Enfant reviews Maxwell's The Victorian Illustrated Book . 2006-12-15 .
• Web site: Quelle vie! . Books by ISBN . 17 March 2018 .

External links

• What A Life! Online text with original illustrations. Public domain in the US.