''What A Life!'' is a work of satirical fiction by

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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

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exhibition "Fantastic Art, Dada, and Surrealism". Though the book is still

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ed in the United Kingdom, it is in the

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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

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External links

What A Life!
Online text with original illustrations. Public domain in the US. 1911 British novels British autobiographical novels British satirical novels Methuen Publishing books {{1910s-satirical-novel-stub