1904 in literature

The year 1904 in literature involved some significant new books.

Events

 * January - Mark Twain begins dictating his autobiography.
 * 16 June - "Bloomsday": the day on which the action of James Joyce's novel Ulysses (1922) takes place in Dublin.
 * September - Mark Twain purchases a home at 21 Fifth Avenue, New York City.

New books

 * L. Frank Baum - The Marvelous Land of Oz
 * Hall Caine - The Prodigal Son
 * G.K. Chesterton - The Napoleon of Notting Hill
 * Joseph Conrad - Nostromo
 * Alexandre Dumas - The Wolf Leader
 * Claude Farrère - Fumée d'opium (Black Opium)
 * John Galsworthy - The Island Pharisees
 * Frederic Harrison - Theophano, The Crusade of the Tenth Century
 * Robert Herrick - The Common Lot
 * Hermann Hesse - Peter Camenzind
 * William Henry Hudson - Green Mansions
 * Robert Smythe Hichens - The Garden of Allah
 * Henry James - The Golden Bowl
 * M.R. James - Ghost Stories of an Antiquary
 * Mary Johnston - Sir Mortimer
 * Jack London - The Sea-Wolf
 * Arthur Morrison - The Green Eye of Goona
 * Luigi Pirandello - The Late Mattia Pascal
 * Beatrix Potter - The Tale of Benjamin Bunny
 * Frederick Rolfe - Hadrian the Seventh
 * Romain Rolland - Jean-Christophe (vol. 1)
 * May Sinclair - The Divine Fire
 * Mark Twain - A Dog's Tale
 * Jules Verne
 * A Drama in Livonia
 * Master of the World
 * H. G. Wells - The Food of the Gods
 * Owen Wister
 * A Journey In Search of Christmas
 * Philosophy 4
 * Stefan Żeromski - Ashes

New drama

 * J.M. Barrie - Peter Pan
 * Anton Chekhov - The Cherry Orchard
 * Octave Mirbeau - Farces and Moralities
 * Erich Mühsam - The Con Men
 * George Bernard Shaw - John Bull's Other Island
 * J.M. Synge - ''Riders to the Sea
 * Frank Wedekind - Pandora's Box

Poetry

 * Giovanni Pascoli - Primi poemetti and 'Primi conviviali''

Non-fiction

 * Ernst Haeckel - Kunstformen der Natur
 * Thorstein Veblen - The Theory of Business Enterprise

Births

 * January 22 - Arkady Gaidar, Russian children's writer (d. 1941)
 * January 23 - Louis Zukofsky, modernist poet (d. 1978)
 * February 1 - S.J. Perelman, humorist, author (d. 1979)
 * February 4 - MacKinlay Kantor, historian (d. 1977)
 * March 26 - Joseph Campbell, author and expert on mythology (d. 1987)
 * April 27 - Cecil Day-Lewis, poet (d. 1972)
 * May 6 - Harry Martinson, Swedish author, winner of the Nobel Prize in literature (d. 1978)
 * July 13 - Pablo Neruda, poet (d. 1973)
 * August 4 - Witold Gombrowicz, playwright and novelist (d. 1969)
 * September - Abdulla Goran, Kurdish poet (d. 1962)
 * November 28 - Nancy Mitford, English novelist and biographer (d. 1973)
 * December 21 - Johannes Edfelt, Swedish poet, translator and critic (d. 1997)
 * December 26 - Alejo Carpentier, Cuban novelist (d. 1980)

Deaths

 * January 3 - Larin Paraske, Finnish folk poet
 * January 20 - Hermann Eduard von Holst, historian
 * February 8 - Alfred Ainger, biographer and critic
 * February 22 - Sir Leslie Stephen, essayist and critic
 * April 16 - Samuel Smiles, political journalist
 * May 5 - Mór Jókai, Hungarian writer
 * June 5 - Olivia Langdon Clemens, wife of Mark Twain
 * July 3 - Theodor Herzl, journalist
 * July 14 - Anton Chekhov, Russian playwright and short story writer
 * August 22 - Kate Chopin, author
 * September 26 - Lafcadio Hearn, author of books about Japan
 * October 11 - Trumbull Stickney, poet
 * November 19 - Hans von Hopfen, poet and novelist

Awards

 * Nobel Prize for Literature: Frédéric Mistral, José Echegaray y Eizaguirre

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