Book description
Conan the Cimmerian. Black-haired, sullen-eyed, sword in hand, a thief,
a reaver, a slayer… Discover how it all began. Conan the Barbarian
spawned a hundred imitators. Find out why with these tales from his
early life. From the Tower of the Elephant to Beyond the Black River,
follow Robert E. Howard's greatest creation as he cuts a bloody swathe
through the history of Hyborea. Over 350 pages of epic action,
personally selected by the makers of the new film and the greatest
Robert E. Howard scholars. “A hero of mythic proportion, fashioned by a
storyteller who helped define what a modern fantasy should be” Raymond
E. Feist. Conan. Warrior, Hero, Legend. (1906-1936) Robert Erwin
Howard was born and rasied in rural Texas, where he lived all his life.
The son of a pioneer physician, he began writing professionally at the
age of fifteen. Howard killed himself in June 1936 when he learned that
his beloved mother had fallen into a coma.
