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The Conan Chronicles, Vol. 1: The People of the Black Circle Paperback – Import, January 1, 2000

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The Conan Volume 1: The People of the Black Circle is a collection of fantasy short stories written by Robert E. Howard featuring his sword and sorcery hero Conan the Barbarian. The book was published in 2000 by Gollancz as eighth volume of their Fantasy Masterworks series. The book, edited by Stephen Jones, presents the stories in their internal chronological order. Most of the stories originally appeared in the magazines The Phantagraph, Weird Tales, Super-Science Fiction, Magazine of Horror and Fantasy Fiction. Contents Map of the Hyborian Age "The Hyborian Age" "The Tower of the Elephant" "The Hall of the Dead" (synopsis) "The God in the Bowl" "Rogues in the House" "The Hand of Nergal" (fragment) "The Frost-Giant’s Daughter" "Queen of the Black Coast" "The Vale of Lost Women" "The Snout in the Dark" (draft) "Black Colossus" "Shadows in the Moonlight" "A Witch Shall Be Born" "Shadows in Zamboula" "The Devil in Iron" "The People of the Black Circle" "The Slithering Shadow" "Drums of Tombalku" (draft) "The Pool of the Black One"

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Millennium
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January 1, 2000
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5.2 x 1.42 x 7.68 inches
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1857989961
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978-1857989960
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Publisher ‏ : ‎ Millennium; New Ed edition (January 1, 2000)
Language ‏ : ‎ English
Paperback ‏ : ‎ 560 pages
ISBN-10 ‏ : ‎ 1857989961
ISBN-13 ‏ : ‎ 978-1857989960
Item Weight ‏ : ‎ 14 ounces
Dimensions ‏ : ‎ 5.2 x 1.42 x 7.68 inches

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(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.

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Eclectic Teacher

Good intro to a classic character.

Reviewed in the United States on July 9, 2017

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An excellent introduction to the Conan saga, something all fantasy and mil-fiction fans should know of. Yes, the "mighty thews" prose is a little purple, but it seems to fit. He really is just that good. Conan is a classic because unlike so many modern novels, he is true to his own character. Yes, he's a barbarian, but it's not the loincloth that makes him a barbarian. The "history" of the world at the beginning was much more extensive than I would have expected, but it helped bring the background of the world to life. Not necessary to enjoy the stories, but fun.
Decent editing, pretty good binding, average quality paper.

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Inspector Gadget

The Mightiest Hero of ALL time

Reviewed in the United States on June 8, 2008

The world of Conan is an amazing place. A world that takes survival of the fittest to new extremes. A world where all women are perfect bodied nudists that only the strongest man can have. And a place where the darkest of magicks and monsters of unspeakable evil dwell.

It is our planet and the time is the Hyborian Age. A time so thickly described and imagined by Robert E. Howard you almost believe it really did exist. The most appealing thing about the stories of Conan is that each one takes place in different, highly imaginative land with new wonders and secret for the great Cimmerian to uncover.

Conan is not the dunderhead seen in the Arnie movies but an extremely intelligent and cunning warrior who always rises to the top of any faction he has made himself a part of and is Captain of a million pirates, General of a thousand armies, King of Aquilonia and an fair fight for almost no one. Conan always wins because he's just simply the mightiest, strongest and most vicious fighter their is.

But he does have morals and is more human than most people he encounters no matter how many times the call him a barbarian dog. And it's easy to identify with a man who loves to travel and keep on going, never wanting to stay in the same place too long. I mean there is so much to this world (but even more to his) that staying in an office for 40 years is downright insane.

Robert E. Howard is an uncertified genius and his Conan Chronicles are an immortal testament to that fact.

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I forgot how good these are

Reviewed in the United States on May 2, 2002

Wow. It didn't take much for me to slip back into the world of Robert E. Howard. I haven't read any Conan books since I was a kid (I got my first library card solely to check out Conan books!), and I picked this volume up to see if the stories held up to my memory.
They are so much better than I remember them. Robert E. Howard, who I have gained new respect for, is a good writer. This edition, for the first time, is pure Howard. The books I read were the de Camp/Carter edited versions/pastiches, and I don't think that their watered-down versions ever had this much life in them. They were certainly never this addictive.
The writing is these stories is vibrant and rough. Pulp writing dictated a certain style of cheap thrills and excitement, and Conan has all of this. However, the strength of craft, of use of language and story, makes these stories shine. Howard successfully created a bold fantasy world unlike any other, although it has often been copied. His liberal use of his friend H.P. Lovecraft's "outside horror" adds to the atmosphere of Hyborea. Conan is a fully-realised character, and not what you think. Like Edgar Rice Burrogh's Tarzan, he did not fare well upon transportation to other media. Intellegence and strength are his equal weapons. Conan is not the shirtless brute that many think of.
I will definitely use this book as an invitation to check out more by Robert E. Howard.

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bILL fISH

THE ORIGINAL MACHO ATAVISTIC SCHOOLBOY SILLINESS...

Reviewed in the United States on March 16, 2002

Here it is-- the original CONAN from overweight hillbilly mama's-boy Bobbie Howard. This "Barbarian" shot himself when Mommie died and left the world more retro-Lovecraft schlock to feed on, only this time with gratuitous violence to lower the age level of the target audience. Rape, sadism, "We are all Animals...", it's all here. Ho Hum.
Only permanent adolescents and Oliver Stone have been roundly impressed-- unfortunately, that's 78% of American males....

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Corey

Robert E. Howard - Master of Heroic Fiction

Reviewed in the United States on October 6, 2005

Other readers may not understand that this was written in a different era. A time when a high school diploma and meant something. Since it was written before the Great Depression for a pulp fan magazine. The language and style is from the past, but the story is powerful and fully fleshed out. I will never sell my copy of this book or of any other Robert E. Howard's works that I own. He is a classic swords and sorcery writer, with the biggest hero ever. Conan

Read it as he wrote it, not as some hacks have tried to write stories of Conan. All other "Edited" or "Enhanced" versions are junk compared to how Howard wrote these stories. Don't waste your time on the other "Conan" authors. Only Robert E. Howard wrote Conan, and only his words as originally written are worth your time.

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Good book

Reviewed in India on December 8, 2018

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Good book

Nogbad the bad

Classic fantasy .

Reviewed in the United Kingdom on August 9, 2000

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I first read the conan books of Robert E Howard nearly 30 years ago.So when I saw they where being re-released I couldnt wait to revisit the world of Conan.I was not disapointed Howards writings where so far ahead of anything today (apart from David Gemmell)my only complaint is that this masterwork is in two volumes and I have discovered from the publishers that no 2 wont be brought out untill April 2001 !

aravind

548 page novel

Reviewed in India on April 5, 2019

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Received this book today total pages 548.
Simply I rated 3 star. I didn't read the book.
It looks like a 548 page novel. More than this I don't know what to say now.

megalurch

Wem das Schwert locker sitzt, von Conan zum Italo-Western

Reviewed in Germany on March 18, 2013

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Howards Original-Conan in 2 Bänden Fantasy Masterworks, das sind je ca. 550 Seiten Pulp-Legende, nebst Fragmenten, informativen Nachworten und Zusammenfassungen von stories, bei denen Howard übers Notizenstatus nicht hinauskam. Die Geschichten sind chronologisch nach Conans Lebensalter angeordnet, es geht also mit einem recht jungen Helden (17 J.) los. Dieser ist ein Dieb und nimmt sich tollkühn und dreist, was er will, so dass man auf Konflikte nicht lange warten muss. Dabei bewirkt der böse Conan, ohne es zu wollen, oft Gutes, z.B. wenn er eine gefangene und gefolterte niedere Gottheit aus den Fängen eines Schwarzmagiers befreit oder eher nebenbei das eine oder andere gefährliche Monster erschlägt. Mit seinem moralisch fragwürdigen Helden Conan, dem das Schwert locker sitzt, und dem ganzen sonstigen zynischen und korrupten Personal in einer grausamen, sexistischen und rassistischen Welt hat Howard eigentlich schon in den frühen 1930ern das Grundmuster der Italo-Western aus den 1960ern vorweggenommen. Die Szene in A witch shall be born, in der Conan an ein Kreuz genagelt ist, muss man gelesen haben, um sie zu glauben. Ist das noch muskelprotziges Mackertum oder Schwarzer Humor oder Fantasy im Stil der "tall tale"? Alles zusammen. Neben Tolkien einer der Urväter der Fantasy-Literatur.

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Ratstool

My copy was missing half of three of the stories ...

Reviewed in the United Kingdom on July 27, 2016

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My copy was missing half of three of the stories.

Of what remained, I can't say I was overly impressed. They're very repetitive. Lured by treasure /woman. Goes to place. Big thing attacks Conan, his thews bulge, and he kills the big thing. Half naked woman throws herself at him. The end.

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