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Significant Books and Music of the Century, Year by Year
1904 was the year that the Russo-Japanese War broke out; work began on the Panama Canal; the comic book was invented; and New York City opened the first section of its subway system.


Significant Book of 1904:
J. M. Barrie's Peter Pan

BOOK This masterpiece of imaginative literature won immediate acclaim upon its 1904 premiere on the London stage. Published in book form a few years later, Barrie's tale of the boy who would not grow up and his adventures in Never-Never Land still captivates succeeding generations.

  Significant Music of 1904:
 Maurice Ravel's String Quartet

BOOK Maurice Ravel's sole string quartet was first performed. Sweetly lyrical, poised, and rhapsodic, it conveys a subtly neoclassical flavor.




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