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The Hyborian Age
Author(s): Robert E. Howard (Author)
- Publisher: CreateSpace Independent Publishing Platform
- Publication Date: September 4, 2018
- Language: English
- Print length: 58 pages
- ISBN-10: 1726498778
- ISBN-13: 9781726498777
Book Description
“The Hyborian Age” is the classic history of the world created by fantasy writer Robert E. Howard, which he populated with sorcerers and princesses, warriors and wizards, and mighty men and monsters. Most famous as the fictional universe of Conan the Barbarian (Conan the Cimmerian), Howard’s universe has shaped fantasy literature for generations and was foundational to the sword and sorcery genre. In this novella, Howard describes how all of his stories build off the history he set forth here. In his own words, the works is “a fictional background for a series of fiction-stories. When I began writing the Conan stories a few years ago, I prepared this ‘history’ of his age and the peoples of that age, in order to lend him and his sagas a greater aspect of realness. And I found that by adhering to the ‘facts’ and spirit of that history, in writing the stories, it was easier to visualize (and therefore to present) him as a real flesh-and-blood character rather than a ready-made product. In writing about him and his adventures in the various kingdoms of his Age, I have never violated the ‘facts’ or spirit of the ‘history’ here set down, but have followed the lines of that history as closely as the writer of actual historical-fiction follows the lines of actual history. I have used this ‘history’ as a guide in all the stories in this series that I have written”
