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The Complete Chronicles of Conan: Centenary Edition

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There are countless other stories edited finished or changed by many authors but here are only his own Conan stories. Howard as I believed were some stories of not very high literary value so I did not think reading them was something urgent. 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. The Conan stories are truly the first fantasy novels written, although there were "faerie stories" and magical romances published earlier.

It was bruited about that I was seen with them, and so today I was haled into court, and a judge asked me where the lad had gone. There's plenty of blood, guts and visceral description but they are also very evocative stories that help you, as Stephen King would doubtless say, 'Fall through the hole in the paper' with their descriptive power. Usually portrayals of Conan by subsequent authors once they were picked up from Robert Howard focus on the violent and barbaric aspects of him, but Conan was a more complicated guy. This means a lot of jumping around through the different ages of the character (the first two Conan stories Howard published are actually two of the last Conan stories, both taking place when Conan is king of Aquilonia; the familiar thief, barbarian, slayer, et al came later).The book contains all of his stories published or not without editing or changes, the stories the great man wrote himself. A very complete appearance of his published Conan stories and of The Hyborian Age, an article describing the peoples and regions of Hyboria.

Loosely based on previously published stories, most notably The Scarlet Citadel and The Phoenix on the Sword, but with much more content, which makes this a full novel. While this collection, when read in it's entirety, points up the somewhat formulaic nature of Howard's writing, it never fails to thrill.

There's an interesting conversation on theology, which left much bigger impression on me than a flying ape. I always loved Howard's history of Conan's world, in fact, I have just as much enjoyment reading about the world and the tribes as much as the stories.

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