The Hyborian Age, Robert E. Howard
The Hyborian Age, Robert E. Howard
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The Hyborian Age

Author: Robert E. Howard

Narrator: Sean Lester

Unabridged: 1 hr 3 min

Format: Digital Audiobook Download

Published: 04/05/2025

Synopsis

Discover the epic world of the Hyborian Age — Robert E. Howard’s legendary prehistory that gave rise to Conan the Barbarian. Explore ancient kingdoms, savage landscapes, and timeless battles in this foundational work of sword and sorcery fiction. A must-read for fantasy fans and lore lovers alike.

About Robert E. Howard

Robert E. Howard (1906–1936) was an American pulp fiction writer who is best known as the creator of Conan, a character that has been featured in film, television, comics, and other media. Despite his suicide at the age of thirty, Howard wrote a huge number of stories in a variety of genres, including fantasy, westerns, horror, and even boxing stories.

Reviews

Goodreads review by Jon on November 27, 2023

Nice backstory to the world Conan inhabits. I would suggest you read this book before you start the Conan series; it is really a map of the world he inhabits. If you are a fan of Conan comics then this book will really add lots of context to the issues. I really was amazed by the level of detail her......more

Goodreads review by Baal Of on April 23, 2021

Nice for giving a sense of the background history of the world of Conan, but it does read like a dry history book with a long series of who invaded whom, and detailed listings of atrocities, wars, and conquests. The kind of thing that caused me to fall asleep in history class.......more

Goodreads review by Philip on June 29, 2014

This essay prefaced everyone of the Lin Carter L Sprague DeCamp pastiches, so I've read this hundreds of times. The history of the Hyborian age.......more

Goodreads review by Erick on September 09, 2025

Que forma tan breve pero efectiva de establecer el mundo en el que suceden todas las historias de Conan (y aparentemente de varios personajes más de los que no tengo mucha información)......more

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