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The Conquering Sword of Conan (Conan the Cimmerian #3)

Robert E. Howard

Paperback | Pages: 416 pages

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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

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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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Title	:	The Conquering Sword of Conan (Conan the Cimmerian #3)
Author	:	Robert E. Howard
Book Format	:	Paperback
Book Edition	:	Anniversary 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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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, Draft

"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

The Conquering Sword of Conan is the final volume in Del Reys three-volume collection of every Robert E. Howard Conan story. Gregory Manchess provides the illustrations for this volume, and they may be my favorite of the three. There is again a foreword by the illustration, as well as an introduction (by Patrice Louinet), notes, synopses, and drafts, a letter, and the final part of Louinets Genesis of the Hyborian Age essay. The letter, in particular, is interesting. It tells us essentially

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.

This was the third volume of REH's Conan writings. It was enjoyable to read them in the order they were written, and for me, the first time. I quite enjoyed the first two volumes in the series, and, based on the gushing introduction, I had high expectations for this volume as it was said to contain some of Howard's most lauded Conan stories written. Seriously? Certainly, the frameworks of the stories were interesting, but as I read them, I kept thinking how badly they needed an editor. Or

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

Book 1: The Coming of Conan the Cimmerian ★★★★ Book 2: The Bloody Crown of Conan - to be read.