This 860page collection contains all of Robert E. Howards Conan the Cimmerian stories published during his lifetime, contextualized with biographical details of their author. The hardcover, a Multimedia Bundle Edition, includes the ebook and audiobook editions as downloadable bonus content.Excerpt from Introduction"When the first Conan of Cimmeria story appeared in the pages of Weird Tales magazine in December 1932, nothing quite like it had ever before appeared in print.Author Robert E. Howard had been writing stories broadly similar to it for half a decade but it was with Conan, and the Hyborian Age storyworld in which he was placed, that Howard finally fully doped out the subgenre that would become known as sword and sorcery, of which Howard is today considered the founding father."Conans origins date back to an experiment in 1926 titled The Shadow Kingdom, featuring the character Kull, exile of Atlantis. The idea Howards great innovation was, at its core, historical fiction set in a prehistorical period. That prehistorical period being, of course, lost in the mists of time could contain anything Howard might like to include evil races of sentient snakethings, sorcerers, undead creatures, demons walking upon the earth, anything."In other words, Howard was creating a secular mythology."And as with any mythology, secular or no, there would be a hero, a Ulysses or a Theseus, an exceptional man of legend striding through that mythworld, sword in hand, righting wrongs and...

Binding: Hardcover;860 pages; Publisher: Pulp-Lit Productions; Classification: N/A; Weight: 1610.5 g; Dimensions: N/A

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