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Significant Books and Music of the Century, Year by Year
1902 was the year that the Boer War ended, with Britain in control of South Africa; Edward VII was crowned in Westminster Abbey; Beatrix Potter's PETER RABBIT was published; and in the first Tournament of Roses football game, held in Pasadena, California, Michigan defeated Stanford.
Significant Book of 1902:
Joseph Conrad's Heart of Darkness
The travels of a young seaman who plunges into the heart of Africa in search of the enigmatic Kurtz reveals much about the nature and value of society. HEART OF DARKNESS portrays what The Reader's Catalog calls "the darkness of the horrors perpetrated in the name of civilization by the 19th-century rush to colonize."
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Significant Music of 1902:
Jean Sibelius's Second Symphony
Finnish composer Jean Sibelius's Second Symphony had its premiere. Inspired by the dramatic symphonic music of Tchaikovsky, Sibelius established a unique sound that expresses the spare beauty of the Finnish landscape.
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