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The year 1904 in literature involved some significant new books.
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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
- Henry James - The Golden Bowl
- M. R. James - Ghost Stories of an Antiquary
- Mary Johnston - Sir Mortimer
- Jack London - The Sea-Wolf
- James Montague - Ghost Stories
- 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
- H. G. Wells - The Food of the Gods
- Owen Wister
- Stefan Żeromski - Ashes
New drama
- J. M. Barrie - Peter Pan
- Anton Chekov - 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
Births
- January 22 - Arkady Gaidar, Russian children's writer
- January 23 - Louis Zukofsky, modernist poet
- January 31 - John O'Hara, novelist (d. 1970)
- February 1 - S. J. Perelman, humorist, author
- February 4 - MacKinlay Kantor, historian (d. 1977)
- March 26 - Joseph Campbell, author and expert on mythology
- April 27 - Cecil Day-Lewis, poet
- May 6 - Harry Martinson, Swedish author, winner of the Nobel Prize in literature
- July 13 - Pablo Neruda, poet
- August 4 - Witold Gombrowicz, playwright and novelist (d. 1969)
- 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
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
- November 19 - Hans von Hopfen, poet and novelist
Awards
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