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Significant Books and Music of the Century, Year by Year
1908 was the year that the first Model T automobile was produced by Ford; Jack Johnson became the first black world heavyweight boxing champion; and the Chicago Cubs won what has turned out to be their last World Series.


Significant Book of 1908:
Kenneth Grahame's The Wind in the Willows

BOOK Grahame's tale of life on the river with Mole, Rat, Badger, and the irrepressible Toad is still considered one of the great children's classics of the century. This particular edition features Arthur Rackham's illustrations.

  Significant Music of 1908:
 Béla Bartók's String Quartet No. 1

BOOK Hungarian composer Béla Bartók completed the first of his six string quartets -- seminal 20th-century works. This quartet blends the intense romanticism of Liszt's late music, Debussy's impressionism, and the jagged rhythms of Hungarian folk songs.




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