The Complete Chronicles Of Conan: Centenary Edition

Hardback

Main Details

Title The Complete Chronicles Of Conan: Centenary Edition
Authors and Contributors      By (author) Robert E Howard
SeriesGollancz S.F.
Physical Properties
Format:Hardback
Pages:944
Dimensions(mm): Height 237,Width 164
Category/GenreFantasy
ISBN/Barcode 9780575077669
ClassificationsDewey:813.52
Audience
General
Illustrations 2 Maps

Publishing Details

Publisher Orion Publishing Co
Imprint Gollancz
Publication Date 19 January 2006
Publication Country United Kingdom

Description

Conan the Cimmerian: the boy-thief who became a mercenary, who fought and loved his way across fabled lands to become King of Aquilonia. Neither supernatural fiends nore demonic sorcery could oppose the barbarian warrior as he wielded his mighty sword and dispatched his enemies to a bloody doom on the battlefields of the legendary Hyborian age. Collected together in one volume for the very first time, in chronological order, are Robert E. Howard's tales of the legendary hero, as fresh and atmospheric today as when they were first published in the pulp magazines of more than seventy years ago. Compiled by and with a foreward and afterword by award-winning writer and editor Stephen Jones

Author Biography

Robert Erwin Howard was born and raised in rural Texas, the son of a pioneer physician. He began writing professionally at the age of fifteen and until his tragic death at the age of thirty turned out dozens of tales of heroic and supernatural fantasy that won him a huge audience across the world and influenced a whole generation of writers, from Robert Jordan to Raymond E. Feist.

Reviews

"The energy of the writing practically thrums off the page and often the sense of tension and unease invoked is genuinely unsettling. Read it, then use the weighty tome to smite your enemies, drive them before you and hear the lamentation of their women!" -- Brian Williamson STARBURST