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Coming of Conan the Cimmerian, The

By: Ballantine Books

Type: Novel - Hardcover

Product Line: Conan

Last Stocked on 6/19/2010

Product Info

Title
Coming of Conan the Cimmerian, The
Publisher
Product Line
Category
Sub-category
Author
Robert Howard
Publish Year
2003
Pages
462
Dimensions
5.5x8.5x1.5"
NKG Part #
2147346003
Type
Novel - Hardcover

Description

In a career that spanned a mere twelve years before his tragic suicide, Robert E. Howard single-handedly invented the genre that came to be called sword and sorcery. Collected in this volume, profusely illustrated by artist Mark Schultz, are Howard's first thirteen Conan stories, appearing in their original versions - in some cases for the first time in more than seventy years - and in the order Howard wrote them. Along with classics of dark fantasy like "The Tower of the Elephant" and swashbuckling adventure like "Queen of the Black Coast," the Coming of Conan the Cimmerian contains a wealth of material never before published in the United States, including the first submitted draft of Conan's debut, "Phoenix on the Sword," Howard's synopses for "The Scarlet Citadel" and "Black Colossus," and a map of Conan's world drawn by the author himself.