Robert E. Howard's Conan the Cimmerian Barbarian
The Complete Weird Tales Omnibus
Failed to add items
Add to basket failed.
Add to wishlist failed.
Remove from wishlist failed.
Adding to library failed
Follow podcast failed
Unfollow podcast failed
Get 30 days of Premium Plus free
Buy Now for £21.99
-
Narrated by:
-
Finn J. D. John
About this listen
This collection contains all of Robert E. Howard's Conan the Cimmerian stories published during his lifetime, contextualized with biographical details of their author.
A full e-book copy of this book in Interactive PDF format is included and can be downloaded by clicking the "PDF" link in your Audible library (it's in the "Title" column). This PDF includes the audiobook chapter numbers, to make navigation easier.
Excerpt from the introduction:
"When the first Conan of Cimmeria story appeared in the pages of Weird Tales magazine in December 1932, nothing quite like it had ever before appeared in print. Author Robert E. Howard had been writing stories broadly similar to it for half a decade; but it was with Conan, and the Hyborian Age storyworld in which he was placed, that Howard finally fully doped out the sub-genre that would become known as "sword and sorcery", of which Howard is today considered the founding father.
"Conan's origins date back to an experiment in 1926 titled "The Shadow Kingdom", featuring the character Kull, exile of Atlantis. The idea - Howard's great innovation - was, at its core, historical fiction set in a pre-historical period. That pre-historical period - being, of course, lost in the mists of time - could contain anything Howard might like to include: evil races of sentient snake-things, sorcerers, undead creatures, demons walking upon the earth, anything.
"In other words, Howard was creating a secular mythology."
PLEASE NOTE: When you purchase this title, the accompanying reference material will be available in your My Library section along with the audio. ©2017 Finn J.D. John (P)2017 Pulp-Lit ProductionsNot the best narrator
Something went wrong. Please try again in a few minutes.
There is something classically comforting about the style of Sword & Sorcery found within the Conan Stories, but unfortunately the narrator renders them unlistenable.
It did however encourage me to dust off the actual book and now I’m very much enjoying my adventures through the Age undreamed of.
Narrator is terrible
Something went wrong. Please try again in a few minutes.
Must have loved his mother an awfully lot.
fantastic and informative
Something went wrong. Please try again in a few minutes.
Amusing old time fiction
Something went wrong. Please try again in a few minutes.
Listened to again and again!
Something went wrong. Please try again in a few minutes.