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| Original Title: | Conan of Cimmeria: The Conquering Sword of Conan (Book 3) |
| ISBN: | 0345461533 (ISBN13: 9780345461537) |
| Edition Language: | English |
| Series: | Conan the Cimmerian #3 |
Robert E. Howard
Paperback | Pages: 416 pages Rating: 4.34 | 3885 Users | 94 Reviews
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| Title | : | The Conquering Sword of Conan (Conan the Cimmerian #3) |
| Author | : | Robert E. Howard |
| Book Format | : | Paperback |
| Book Edition | : | Deluxe Edition |
| Pages | : | Pages: 416 pages |
| Published | : | November 29th 2005 by Del Rey (first published 1935) |
| Categories | : | Fantasy. Fiction. Heroic Fantasy. Sword and Sorcery. Pulp. Adventure |
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This book is notable for two hard-to-find tales from Conan universe from the creator of the most famous barbarian himself. There is not much to say about Conan the Barbarian tales: they are still fun to read despite their age. The plot of the most stories can be outlined in the following way. A problem comes to Conan, usually started by an evil sorcerer. Conan solves the problem using his sword, or even just bare fists taking care of the bad guy along the way.I will give more details about the two stories I mentioned above. The first one is The Black Stranger. Chronologically it comes right after Beyond the Black River. Conan flees from his imprisonment by Picts and stumbles right into a dispute over some treasure between different pirate groups. The barbarian shows up fairly late in the story with almost half of which is spent on the pirate groups trying to double-cross each other. As such it is more complex than an average Conan story and shows the progress of Robert E. Howard as a writer right before his untimely death.
The second story is called Wolves beyond the Border. It was told in two different drafts which were not finished by the author. The first one is very brief and gives just bare outline of the plot. The second one can be considered as a final version, but it stops right in the middle of the tale; the last two lines of the first draft tell how the story would end, but no details are given. Conan is only mentioned; he just took Aquilonian throne and caused some unrest by doing so. Picts are involved once again.
The last published tales of Conan do not disappoint, as usual: 5 solid stars for sheer entertainment value.
This review is a copy/paste of my BookLikes one: http://gene.booklikes.com/post/914718...
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I don't know, I have the hard back but it wasn't listed... This is the third volume of the three volume set of Howard's versions of the Conan stories. It contains:"The Servants of Bit-Yakin" Beyond the Black River The Black Stranger "The Man-Eaters of Zamboula" Red Nails Untitled Notes: "The Westermark: ..." "Wolves Beyond the Border", Draft A "Wolves Beyond the Border", Draft B The Black Stranger, Synopsis A The Black Stranger, Synopsis B "The Man-Eaters of Zamboula", Synopsis Red Nails, DraftMan-Eaters of Zamboula (formerly Shadows in Zamboula): Conan ignores a dire warning and gets a rude surprise during his stay at an inn in Zamboula - all the slaves there are cannibals. The use of irony here is that Conan knows the entire time the naked girl he sees chasing her crazed lover in the street is Nafertari, mistress to the crazed satrap. Conan has bigger fish to fry for almost feeding him to the natives: he ditches both of them to get his revenge on the tavern owner. Guess the use of
"I have lived in the Southwest all my life, yet most of my dreams are laid in cold, giant lands of icy wastes and gloomy skies, and of wild, wind-swept fens and wilderness over which sweep great sea-winds, and which are inhabited by shock-headed savages with light fierce eyes. With the exception of one dream, I am never, in these dreams of ancient times, a civilized man. Always am I the barbarian, the skin-clad, tousle-haired, light-eyed wild man, armed with a rude ax or sword, fighting the
After reading this book, I have now read all 21 of the original Robert E. Howard-penned Conan stories. Some were good, some were bad, and some were excellent. I'll review the stories from this volume individually.The Servants Of Bit-Yakin: A mediocre-at-best Conan story, and one which I've read a number of times over the years, usually under the title "Jewels Of Gwahlur". It contains the usual Howard racism and simperingly idiotic female companion without much of Howard's typically highly
Howard's "Conan" stories have a legendary aura around them, but some of their mystique comes from the horrible pastiches written like Conan - and later stuff like DeCamp's actual Conan stories themselves, most of which are sub-par. DAW's third book concludes the Conan cycle with the last bits of uncut, completely raw stories, all as Howard would want them.Conan stories are best when they capture and magify the gloomy, headstrong personality of the creator, and two of the stories in here, "Beyond
Call this 3.5 stars. I'm a big fan of Howard's Conan mythos; it's some of the only sword-and-sorcery fantasy that I enjoy. This collection, however, failed to grab me as most of the Conan stories do and I'm still trying to figure out why.Here's what I've come up with so far. First, Conan is way too powerful. Obviously, he's always been powerful, right from the beginning, but in the earlier stories he seems to lose more battles. He gets captured, knocked unconscious, ensorcelled, whatever.
"A wolf was no less a wolf because a whim of chance caused him to run with the watch-dogs."Howard's frenetic prose and stark vision are on full display in this work. The final volume in the collected works of Conan displays Howard's growth as a writer and cements his legacy as one of the greatest contributors in the fantasy genre. At last, Howard offers his uncompromising view of civilization against the contrast of barbarism in two tales taken from this collection: "The Black Stranger" and "Red
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