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Robert E. Howard's Conan the Cimmerian Barbarian
- The Complete Weird Tales Omnibus
- Narrated by: Finn J. D. John
- Length: 35 hrs and 6 mins
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Summary
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.What listeners say about Robert E. Howard's Conan the Cimmerian Barbarian
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- "ontologic_alchemist"
- 04-12-23
Classic pulp sword and sorcery ruined by awful voice work.
I like the conan stories, and the extra early work is a novel insight to the barbarians generation, but the narration is painful. When the narrator isn’t crowbarring the prose into a sort of ham-fisted iambic pentameter, his voicing of characters is limited to a handful of generic accents for a cast of hundreds: women are generically simpering, nasal whines; thieves and soldiers winge and whine, sorcerers and kings slurr and drawl through dialogue that would be more bearable if it were read with anything but a sort of bored indifference. I was very sad. This could have been great.
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- I.H. Schots
- 03-04-20
Amusing old time fiction
I bought this book because I play Conan Exiles and for this the collection is good to learn a little about the lore behind the game.
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- Arch Unit
- 05-02-21
this is best in life
really good audio book, descriptions of each book in the series help to give focus the strange tales of conan
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- Hi-wud-nut-ly-2-u
- 02-12-23
all the Conan stories and info on when and why each story was written
I was about to buy the iron devil at the same price when I came across this bargain which included the exact story I wanted a many more... fantastic value
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- Marc Pipmister
- 20-02-18
fantastic and informative
Great presentation and history of author and genre. still like to know if he was ever paid the $1500 Weird Talks owed him.
Must have loved his mother an awfully lot.
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- Anonymous User
- 31-01-22
Much better than expected.
I dont see why all the hate for the narrator. really good storys and the narrator did a good job. Conan really was a barbarian
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- BB
- 19-01-18
Great collection
Great collection for all Conan fans,something I have been waiting for a long time. All the greatest Conan adventures in one place with commentary about Robert E. Howard’s life.
Must listen if you’re true heroic fantasy fan.
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- Eadwine Brown
- 04-04-20
The only Conan collection worth a credit, by Crom!
Great - Finn is an excellent narrator and scholar and the introductions are fascinating. Presented in order of Weird Tales' publication, this is the original text of each Howard story
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- YYY
- 04-06-21
Great stories narrator not so much
Reader has a bit of a dull voice not putting enough emotion into reading but stories are great
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- Kyle
- 30-06-22
Reliving my childhood
A different Conan ,poetic majestic I really enjoyed the stories and the history of the author. Not the same and my Arnold child memories
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