Name: Conan the Barbarian
ISBN: 9781329687509

Robert E Howard

Conan the Barbarian by Robert E Howard Conan the Barbarian - Warrior, Hero, Legend. Conan - Black-haired, sullen-eyed, sword in hand, a thief, a reaver, a slayer... Discover how it all began. Conan the Barbarian spawned a hundred imitators. Find out why with these tales from his life. From the Tower of the Elephant to Beyond the Black River, follow Robert E. Howard's greatest creation as he cuts a bloody swathe through the history of Hyborea. Over 720 pages of epic action! All the original stories. "A hero of mythic proportion, fashioned by a storyteller who helped define what a modern fantasy should be" - Raymond E. Feist.

Conan the Barbarian

Robert E. Howard

Conan the Barbarian or Conan the Cimmerian is a fictional sword and sorcery character created by writer Robert E. Howard in 1932 and published as a series of fantasy stories published in pulp fiction magazine. Since then, it has been adapted to books, comics, several films, television shows, vido games, role-playing games and other media. According to some scholars, Howard's conception of Conan and the Hyborian Age may have originated in Thomas Bulfinch's The Outline of Mythology (1913). This book contains three tales: THE HYBORIAN AGE - the fictional setting for Conan. BEYOND THE BLACK RIVER - Conan is around 40 now, and visits his homeland to learn that his old friends are fathers. Bored, Conan sets off for the Bossonian Marches and becomes a Scout at Fort Tuscelan on the Black River, at the western border of the newly conquered Aquilonian province Conajohara. RED NAILS - the last of the stories about Conan, and is considered a classic of Conan lore and is often cited by Howard scholars as one of his best tales. It tells about Conan encountering a lost city in which the degenerate inhabitants are proactively resigned to their own destruction. Due to its grim themes of decay and death, the story.

Conan the Barbarian

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