General Information

Title:                  Robert E. Howard's Conan the Cimmerian Barbarian: The Complete Weird Tales Omnibus (Unabridged)
Author:                 Robert E. Howard, Finn J. D. John
Read By:                Finn J. D. John
Copyright:              2017
Audiobook Copyright:    2017
Publisher:              Pulp-Lit Productions
Duration:               35 hours, 6 minutes, 42 seconds
Chapters:               140

Media Information

Source Format:          Audible AAX
Source Sample Rate:     22050 Hz
Source Channels:        2
Source Bitrate:         63 kbits

Lossless Encode:        No
Encoded Codec:          LAME MP3
Encoded Sample Rate:    22050 Hz
Encoded Channels:       2
Encoded Bitrate:        64 kbits

Ripper:                 inAudible 1.95

Book Description

This collection contains all of Robert E. Howard's Conan the Cimmerian stories published during his lifetime, contextualized with biographical details of their author. 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.