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. 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 the United Kingdom
, it is in the public domain
in the USA.
E. V. Lucas
Edward Verrall Lucas was a versatile and popular English writer. His nearly 100 books demonstrate great facility with style, and are generally acknowledged as humorous by contemporary readers and critics. Some of his essays about the sport cricket are still considered among the best instructional...
and George Morrow
George Morrow (illustrator)
George Morrow was a cartoonist and book illustrator. He was the son of a painter and decorator from Clifton Street in west Belfast...
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
Moma
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exhibition "Fantastic Art, Dada, and Surrealism".
Though the book is still copyright
Copyright
Copyright is a legal concept, enacted by most governments, giving the creator of an original work exclusive rights to it, usually for a limited time...
ed in the United Kingdom
United Kingdom
The United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern IrelandIn the United Kingdom and Dependencies, other languages have been officially recognised as legitimate autochthonous languages under the European Charter for Regional or Minority Languages...
, it is in the public domain
Public domain
Works are in the public domain if the intellectual property rights have expired, if the intellectual property rights are forfeited, or if they are not covered by intellectual property rights at all...
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
External links
- What A Life! Online text with original illustrations. Public domain in the USA.