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The Complete Chronicles of Conan: Centenary Edition Hardcover – 19 Jan. 2006

by Robert E. Howard (Author), Stephen Jones (Foreword)

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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.

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928 pages
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English
Publisher

Gollancz
Publication date

19 Jan. 2006
Dimensions

15.24 x 5.84 x 24.13 cm
ISBN-10

0575077662
ISBN-13

978-0575077669
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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

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A sumptuous hardback to celebrate the 100th anniversary of the birth of Robert E. Howard, one of the true Masters of Fantasy

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Publisher ‏ : ‎ Gollancz; Centenary ed. edition (19 Jan. 2006)
Language ‏ : ‎ English
Hardcover ‏ : ‎ 928 pages
ISBN-10 ‏ : ‎ 0575077662
ISBN-13 ‏ : ‎ 978-0575077669
Dimensions ‏ : ‎ 15.24 x 5.84 x 24.13 cm

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Cari Hislop

By Crom, this Conan compendium is awesome!

Reviewed in the United Kingdom on 16 November 2016

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I'm not even half way through the compendium and I'm hooked. The descriptive power of the author is awesome! He sucks me into the story and when disturbed from the tale it's that groggy...Reality? What? Ugh!... I've been reading it as bed time stories. The individual books are fairly short and each story is complete in itself. I grew up reading my older brother's Conan the Barbarian comics (and admiring the Fantasy artists who painted the covers), but these stories (the originals) blow the comics out of the water. As one of the other reviewer noted, the author writes realistic battles. Iron Age history in fiction form...you can smell the blood, hear the screams, feel evil leer at whoever is in its sights! Conan as a character is so much more enchanting than I would have ever guessed. He's hard, considering he was born on a battle field that would make sense, but he has his own personal code of honour and he's not unkind or without a dry humour. I can easily believe that if I could go back in time...I could meet men like Conan - men who survive their day job as Mercenary/thief/whatever it takes to survive and rise above their expectation to something great.

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Chris-E-Gray

Great Novels, Poor Formatting.

Reviewed in the United Kingdom on 30 June 2020

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As a series of novels the Conan books are great. They lay the ground work for so much of modern fantasy that I'd say they're a must read for any Roleplayer, wargamer or general fanatasy lover.

That being said, there are a few poor points with this partucular edition that I want to mention;
-The novels in this collection are in publish order, rather than in Conans chronological order. Meaning the open the book to Conan as a legendary king and at some point later on get his 'start' and the growth of the character. This could very easy throw off a new reader to the series.
-The book is poorly formatted for kindle. There are missing sentences at the start of chapters, random symbols inplace of some letters, and general overall poor formatting thoughout.

Aside from these issues, some people may find the language used in the novels a bit hard to stand. Woman and anyone none White are described in very caricatured ways that reflect the author as a product of his time. If you're uncomfortable reading excessive young female nudity and Black men being described as naked savages, I'd advise against reading this series in general.

Overall, I'd recommend this book as a cheap way of picking up the Conan stories. But if you can afford it, I'd advise you lool elseware.

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J. A. Power

A cracking good read

Reviewed in the United Kingdom on 5 August 2018

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While you could never pretend the Conan stories are great literature they are full of wonderful imagery and cracking good adventures.
They stand up to the passage of time with ease and are as enjoyable as they must have been eighty plus years ago, not something, I suspect, that can be said of a lot of 'serious' books published then.

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Eric Faragher

The Forgotten Temple of Amazonia In the Black Jungle of Ebuccanalia

Reviewed in the United Kingdom on 31 December 2020

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Conan stalked up to the Kindle with the soft tread of a hunting panther. In the hands of an ordinary, civilised man, the device would have been of a comfortable size, but in the massive fists of the Cimmerian it almost disappeared.

"Crom!" he grunted as he accidently flicked the "On" switch with a fingernail like a spade. His square cut black hair bristled with superstitious dread as the screen revealed unfamiliar symbols. However, the barbarian had picked up a smattering of all tongues of all lands in his many years of roaming and was able to read his own name there.

Suddenly his eyes became slits and burned with elemental rage. He snarled and whirled about, suspicious of a trick, his broadsword sweeping the area about him in a great arc of swift death...

But there was no wizard or assassin creeping up behind him.

The fire in his eyes died down as he relaxed once more and turned his attention back to the magical device and began to read.

"Crom," he exclaimed after a moment, "but surely this is a scan with some obvious mistakes." With a snarl of unthinking rage he threw the Kindle from him. It would have survived the throw of any ordinary man, but not the steely thews of that mighty frame powered by the unthinking instinct that had saved Conan a thousand times. It shattered against a wall of lapis lazuli, falling into a thousand pieces on the marble floor of the ruined and forgotten jungle temple....

Actually, the mistakes were not so many as to worry a civilised reader and the purchase of so much for so little treasure need not have awakened the wrath of the wolfish warrior. For, although the text was undoubtedly scanned, yet it had been proof read and mistakes were not so many or so great as to arouse much anger.

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Ali Maloney

Beautifl edition, but NOT complete

Reviewed in the United Kingdom on 2 January 2021

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This is a gorgeous book, lovingly put together, but I was a bit shocked to open it and look a the contents. Is that all the stories in it?, I thought.

Yes, it *technically* has all the Howard tales but it doesn't have any of the ones he wrote in collaboration with other authors so it is pretty incomplete and whole sections of Conan's tale are untold here. For example, it is missing: The Thing in the Crypt, The Hall of the Dead, The Hand of Nergal, The City of Skulls, The Curse of the Monolith, The Boodstained God, Lair of the Ice Worm, The Castle of Terror, etc, etc....

I am finding this a less *complete* edition than a 25p paperback 1989 edition I picked up in a charity shop bin.

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Kit Alban

Superb

Reviewed in the United Kingdom on 15 April 2019

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Need an antidote to nihilism and the depressing tentacles of modernity? Robert E Howard is the author to turn to. Straight action, uncompromising results and a hero that strides across his world with all the assurance of a man at ease with himself. Superb tales in a beautifully produced volume.

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Classic Swords and Sorcery

Reviewed in the United Kingdom on 19 August 2020

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I have been a fan of heroic fantasy since I first started reading ERB’s Martian novels and Robert E Howard as a schoolboy in the early 1950s.
This omnibus collection brings all the original Howard Conan stories together on Kindle.....marvellous!
I have not re-read these stories for over thirty years but this purchase has put it in mind to do so. Howard's original tales remain some of the best fantasy action fiction ever written, the language may now be a bit dated for younger readers but the stories are classics.

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