- Hardcover: 248 pages
- Publisher: Donald M. Grant Inc (31 Dec 1987)
- Language English
- ISBN-10: 0937986860
- ISBN-13: 978-0937986868
- Product Dimensions: 22.9 x 15.2 x 2.5 cm
- Average Customer Review: 4.4 out of 5 stars See all reviews (8 customer reviews)
- Amazon Bestsellers Rank: 5,197,159 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)
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The second volume, completing the definitive collection of Conan stories, featuring the most distinctive and well known fantasy hero of all time.
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Conan the Cimmerian: he rose from boy-thief and mercenary to become kingof Aquilonia. Neither supernatural fiends nor 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 for the first time anywhere in the world, in chronological order, are all Robert E. Howard's definitive stories of Conan, exactly as he wrote them, as fresh, atmospheric and vibrant today as when they were first published in the pulp magazines more than sixty years ago.
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13 of 13 people found the following review helpful
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Here is an author who is seriously overlooked by the fantasy world, and by the world of literature at large. Everyone knows of Tolkien, even if not everyone has read his work. But Conan continues to overshadow his creator, despite Howard's extraordinary gift for language and his incredible prolific output (in under 12 years as a writer). Arguably the finest story in this collection, "Red Nails", combines nail-biting action with tremendous energy; the next tale, "Jewels of Gwahlur", shows Howard's skill at setting a scene. The stories in this, and the other, Conan collection show a great but not fully recognised talent, an original genius. For at their heart is a man who not only had a love of words and a passion for what he did, but also possessed a remarkable gift for creating worlds and describing the lush settings and breathtaking scenery. And he can't half write battles and fight scenes! (See "The Phoenix on the Sword" and "The Hour of the Dragon", both in here). But at times Howard's work possesses something rare: a true sense of poetry and of sensitivity to lost ages and dead kingdoms long fallen to dust. Truly Howard deserves more recognition - he made a genre, almost single-handedly, long before Tolkien had thought of the word "hobbit".
12 of 13 people found the following review helpful
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I was eagerly awaiting this book and I am very impressed. The books collected here are mostly from the latter part of REH's life and his skills are realy at their peak. I can honestly say to anyone, whatever your views on Conan as a hero, these are tales that you should read. Howard yet again weaves worlds of gargantuan proportions and gives an insight into what is lacking in todays books, IMAGINATION. For fans of Robert Ervin Howard these books are simply essential, for fans of barbarian worlds and tales lost in mists of time they are essential, and for every one else these publications are the best in the world for REH's Conan. As an added inclusion in these volumes there are some short biographical notes which add to the understanding of the author and his almost spiritual way of writing, Howard said that his yarns were writen as though he was being told them by the actual hero of the story and that he never knew when they would leave. Take a risk, no writer ever put so much work into their work and no writer ever achieved the limitless imagination and action that Robert E. Howard did, You will not be sorry
11 of 12 people found the following review helpful
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Howard is to modern fantasy what Jim Thompson is to the modern noir thriller -- a writer of enormous, raw talent writing at amasing speed so that the energy simply bursts from the page, its
language roaring, eloquent, purple as hell, but finer than most of its literary contemporari3es with the exception of other Southern writers like Faulkner. Why Texas should spawn such writers -- the place is still full of them -- is a mystery, but spawn them it does. Read this and you will see what the more literary writers like Moorcock and Harrison saw as potential salvation! The final novel, The Hour of the Dragon, originally published as Conan the Conqueror, remains Howard's finest work. Even his verse is better than some of the better-bred English 'phantasts'. This has the same power as Elric -- one draft written at white heat and mailed to the publisher just in time to pay the rent. And still a thousand times better than the pathetic imitations the sequel-merchants have been turning out ever since.
Tolkien-Howard-Moorcock -- the foundations of all
modern epic fantasy. This series is truly showing today's reader the best of the past and where it all came from, whether it is E.R.Eddison or Robert E. Howard. The best all have the same maniacal
visionary drive. You'll love it.
language roaring, eloquent, purple as hell, but finer than most of its literary contemporari3es with the exception of other Southern writers like Faulkner. Why Texas should spawn such writers -- the place is still full of them -- is a mystery, but spawn them it does. Read this and you will see what the more literary writers like Moorcock and Harrison saw as potential salvation! The final novel, The Hour of the Dragon, originally published as Conan the Conqueror, remains Howard's finest work. Even his verse is better than some of the better-bred English 'phantasts'. This has the same power as Elric -- one draft written at white heat and mailed to the publisher just in time to pay the rent. And still a thousand times better than the pathetic imitations the sequel-merchants have been turning out ever since.
Tolkien-Howard-Moorcock -- the foundations of all
modern epic fantasy. This series is truly showing today's reader the best of the past and where it all came from, whether it is E.R.Eddison or Robert E. Howard. The best all have the same maniacal
visionary drive. You'll love it.
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3.5 Stars
The adventures of Conan the Cimmerian are brilliant if you take them at face value and accept them for what they are: a series of well-written adventures which will rarely fail to... Read more
Published on 17 Aug 2008 by S. Brotherston
The last of Howard's Conan
He lives on in an infinite amount of spin-offs and new interpretations but Howard's Conan is without a doubt the definitive and best. Read more
Published on 8 Jun 2008 by Inspector Gadget
Conan the Over-Rated
It can't be disputed that Howard created a great, iconic character in Conan. I remember loving his books as a teenager. This book was dissappointing, though. Read more
Published on 19 Dec 2006 by B. Dalton
Amazed!
i am amazed as well at howards excellent style of writing as i am at the fact that this book has not been commented on for three years. i wonder at how easily we forget... Read more
Published on 17 Sep 2000 by siege@africaonline.co.tz
Howard's best work. I was enthralled throughout!!
Howard's use of metaphors is stunning. I couldn't put it down. Of all the conan adventures
this is definitely the best. Howard is truely a master writer!
this is definitely the best. Howard is truely a master writer!
Published on 3 July 1997
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