{"product_id":"robert-e-howards-conan-the-cimmerian-barbarian","title":"Robert E. Howard's Conan the Cimmerian Barbarian","description":"\u003cp\u003eThis 860-page collection contains all of Robert E. Howard's Conan the Cimmerian stories published during his lifetime, contextualized with biographical details of their author. The hardcover, a Multimedia Bundle Edition, includes the e-book and audiobook editions as downloadable bonus content.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eExcerpt from Introduction:\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\"When the first Conan of Cimmeria story appeared in the pages of \u003cem\u003eWeird Tales\u003c\/em\u003e 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.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\"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.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\"In other words, Howard was creating a secular mythology.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\"And as with any mythology, secular or no, there would be a hero, a Ulysses or a Theseus, an exceptional man of legend striding through that myth-world, sword in hand, righting wrongs and slaying supernatural monsters and, along the way, providing metaphorical insight onto his world and ours.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\"At the same time, he was finding success with another historical-fiction-fusion innovation: The grim, savage English Puritan Solomon Kane. Kane’s world was the skull-strewn chaos of Europe and north Africa during the Thirty Y\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Pulp-Lit Productions","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":67617057669487,"sku":"9781635912715","price":324.16,"currency_code":"BRL","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0921\/9384\/9711\/files\/1635912717.jpg?v=1790672912","url":"https:\/\/internacional.umlivro.com.br\/products\/robert-e-howards-conan-the-cimmerian-barbarian","provider":"UmLivro Internacional","version":"1.0","type":"link"}