The Conan Chronicles 1-2.

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Conan the Cimmerian: he rose from boy-thief and mercenary to become king of 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 Róbert 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. The serJES Fantasy Masterworks is a library of somé of the greatest, most originál, and most influential fantasy ever written. These are the books which, along withTolkien, Peake and others, shaped modern fantasy. 'Howard was the Thomas Wolfe of fantasy, and most of his Conan tales seem to almost fali over themselves in their need to get out' Stephen King 'A hero of mythic proportion, fashioned... Tovább

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Conan the Cimmerian: he rose from boy-thief and mercenary to become king of 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 Róbert 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. The serJES Fantasy Masterworks is a library of somé of the greatest, most originál, and most influential fantasy ever written. These are the books which, along withTolkien, Peake and others, shaped modern fantasy. 'Howard was the Thomas Wolfe of fantasy, and most of his Conan tales seem to almost fali over themselves in their need to get out' Stephen King 'A hero of mythic proportion, fashioned by a storyteller who helped define what a modern fantasy should be. 'Rogues in the House' is one of the finest tales of sword and sorcery ever written.' Raymond E. Feist RÓBERT E. HOWARD (1906-1936) Róbert Ervin Howard was born and raised in rural Texas, where he lived all his life.The son of a pioneer physician, he began writing professionally at fifteen. Written between 1932 and 1935, for Weird Tales magaziné, Howard's complete adventures of Conan are collected into two Fantasy Masterworks volumes. Howard killed himself in June 1936, on learning that his beloved mothcr had slipped into a terminál coma.

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FAnÍASY mAStERJXJORKS - The Hyborian Age: a time of legends. Conan the Cimmerian rose from boythief and mercenary to become king of Aquilonia. Wielding his mighty sword, nothing could stand in the wav of the barbarian warrior, neither supernatural fiends nor demonic sorcerv. Collected together for the first time in chronological order are all Róbert 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. ÍHE SERJES Fantasy Masterworks is a librarv of somé of the greatest, most originál, and most influential fantasy ever written. These are the books which, along withTolkien, Peake and others, shaped modern fantasy. 'Howard was the Thomas Wolfe of fantasy, and most of his Conan tales seem to almost fali over themselves in their need to get out' Stephen King 1 j 'Howard had a great love for all that i was lost and strange and faraway' Leigh Brackett 1 'The most popular hero in epic fantasy' Kari Edward Wagner j RÓBERT E. HOWARD (1906-1936) Róbert Ervin Howard was born and raised in rural Texas, where he lived all his life. The son of ' a pioneer physician, he began writing : professionally at fifteen. Written between 1932 and 1935, Howard's i twenty-one adventures of Conan j are collected into two Fantasy Masterworks volumes. Howard killed himself in June 1936, on learning that his beloved mother had slipped into a terminál coma. Vissza