Download or read book Conan the Conqueror written by Robert Ervin Howard and published by Createspace Independent Publishing Platform. This book was released on 2012-09-05 with total page 204 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: When plague sweeps through Nemedia, felling the King and his three sons, the King's brother Tarascus assumes the throne and seizes the opportunity to invade neighboring Aquilonia without warning. King Conan rallies the Aquilonian host and rides out to meet the invader. But there are whispers that the plague was a thing of evil, brought forth from the blackest corners of the tombs of stygia at the behest of a dark master, and on the eve of battle dark forces assail the Aquilonian king and set in motion an unexpected course of events, as Howard's indomitable Conan the Barbarian hacks and slashes his way through wizards, warriors and unearthly forces in this rare full-length novel of swords and sorcery, magic and mayhem, on a quest to recapture his hard-won Aquilonian throne. This collector-quality edition includes the complete text of Robert E. Howard's classic tale of swords and sorcery and high adventure in the Hyborian Age. This volume features Conan the Barbarian in Howard's only true novel-length story in a freshly edited and newly typeset edition. With a generous 6"x9" page size, this Summit Classic edition is printed on hefty bright white paper with a fully laminated cover featuring an original full color design. Page headers and proper placement of footnotes exemplify the attention to detail given this volume. This story first appeared as "The Hour of the Dragon," serialized in Weird Tales: Part 1, December 1935; Part 2, January 1936; Part 3, February 1936; Part 4, March 1936; Part 5, April 1936. Subsequently published in book form titled as "Conan The Conqueror, featuring Conan," the story has alternately been known as "Conan the Conqueror" and "The Hour of the Dragon" in the ensuing years. Purely as a matter of editorial choice we have titled this Summit Classics edition as "Conan the Conqueror: The Hour of the Dragon." Robert Ervin Howard (January 22, 1906 - June 11, 1936) was a prolific contributor to a variety of pulp fiction magazines in a writing career cut short by his suicide by gunshot at thirty years of age. In addition to poetry and newspaper content, Howard wrote numerous short stories in a variety of pulp genres, including boxing stories, westerns, detective stories, and historical and contemporary adventure fiction. Best known as the creator of Conan the Barbarian, Howard is often regarded as the father of the "sword and sorcery" genre, and Conan eclipsed Howard's other popular characters, most notably Solomon Kane. While very widely read in the pulps, Howard's work did not begin to appear in book form until after his death. Sadly, failures to file and renew documents and publish notices then required by copyright law, especially by the publishers of Weird Tales magazine and by Howard himself, allowed much of Howard's work to slip into the public domain quickly. Poor quality, badly-edited short-run editions circulated periodically, and Howard's work became increasingly obscure until the 1960's, when the "Lancer" editions presented quality paperback versions of many of the "Conan" stories. The popular "Ace" paperbacks of the 1970's presented an extensive lineup of "Conan" material, and launched the modern revival of Howard's sword-wielding barbarian, leading to comics, movies, new stories (mainly written by others either from wholecloth or unfinished stories and notes by Howard) and the taciturn Cimmerian's status as a major fictional character.

Download or read book People of the Dark Annotated written by Robert Ervin Howard and published by . This book was released on 2020-10-18 with total page 30 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: People of the Dark is a collection of stories by Robert E. Howard that includes: "The Black Stone", "Children of the Night", "The Dark Man", "The Footfalls Within", "Gods of Bal Sagoth", "Horror from the Mound", "Kings of the Night", "The Last Day", "People of the Dark", "The Song of the Mad Minstrel", and "The Thing on the Roof".The title story, "People of the Dark", is considered to be part of the Cthulhu Mythos.It was first published in Strange Tales, June 1932.

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Download or read book Kings of the Night Serapis Classics written by Robert E. Howard and published by Serapis Classics. This book was released on 2017-10-17 with total page 47 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Bran Mak Morn is a hero of several pulp fiction short stories by Robert E. Howard. In the stories, most of which were first published in Weird Tales, Bran is the last king of Howard's romanticized version of the tribal race of Picts.

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Download or read book Literary Characters in Intellectual Property Law written by Jani McCutcheon and published by Edward Elgar Publishing. This book was released on 2023-03-02 with total page 303 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This ground-breaking book critically interrogates how literary characters are regulated under copyright, moral rights, and trademark law, challenging important foundations that underscore engagement with literary characters. Using interesting examples, and referencing literary theory, Literary Characters in Intellectual Property Law offers an in-depth exploration of both the law and the diverse and conflicting interests that are impacted by literary character appropriation, incorporating the perspectives of owners, authors, appropriators, and consumers.

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Download or read book Total Recall written by Arnold Schwarzenegger and published by Simon and Schuster. This book was released on 2012-10-01 with total page 920 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This enhanced edition of Total Recall holds 16 videos clips, including behind the scenes footage from Terminator 3, political speeches from the Governor years and clips from Pumping Iron. In this fully illustrated ebook, Arnold Schwarzenegger takes us through each of the 170+ photographs and narrates each image. In his signature larger-than-life style, Arnold Schwarzenegger’s Total Recall is a revealing self-portrait of his illustrious, controversial and truly unique life. Born in a small Austrian town in 1947, a year of famine, he was the son of an austere police chief. He dreamed of moving to America to become a bodybuilding champion and a movie star. By the age of 21, he was living in Los Angeles and had been crowned Mr Universe. Within five years, he had learned English and become the greatest bodybuilder in the world. Within ten years, he had earned his college degree and was a millionaire from his business enterprises in real estate, landscaping and bodybuilding. He was also the winner of a Golden Globe Award for his debut as a dramatic actor in Stay Hungry. But that was only the beginning. The Terminator spawned numerous sequels and made him one of Hollywood's biggest stars, as he had a series of hit films including Predator, Total Recall, True Lies and Twins. He married Maria Shriver, becoming part of the Kennedy clan, while going on to become the Republican governor of California, where he led the state through a budget crisis, natural disasters and political turmoil. It is the greatest immigrant success story of our time. His story is unique, and uniquely entertaining, and he tells it brilliantly in these pages. Until now, he has never told the full story of his life, in his own voice. Here is Arnold, with total recall.

Download or read book Conan The Hunter written by Sean A. Moore and published by Tor Books. This book was released on 1994-01-15 with total page 256 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A jeweled bracelet he purchases for his current lady love, Yvanna, from a Zamoran thief sends Conan on a quest for murderous when he discovers that the bracelet had belonged to the King of Brythunia's murdered daughter. Original.

Download or read book The Weird Tales of Conan the Barbarian written by Robert E. Howard and published by Courier Dover Publications. This book was released on 2016-06-20 with total page 401 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Reprinted as they originally appeared in the legendary pulp magazine Weird Tales from 1934 to 1936, this ferocious anthology gathers many of the barbarian's most famous adventures: "Red Nails," "The Hour of the Dragon," and three others.

Download or read book The Revenant of Thraxton Hall written by Vaughn Entwistle and published by Macmillan. This book was released on 2014-03-25 with total page 335 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Arthur Conan Doyle has just killed off Sherlock Holmes in "The Final Problem," and he immediately becomes one of the most hated men in London. So when he is contacted by a medium "of some renown" and asked to investigate a murder, he jumps at the chance to get out of the city. The only thing is that the murder hasn't happened yet—the medium, one Hope Thraxton, has foreseen that her death will occur at the third séance of a meeting of the Society for Psychical Research at her manor house in the English countryside. Along for the ride is Conan Doyle's good friend Oscar Wilde, and together they work to narrow down the list of suspects, which includes a mysterious foreign Count, a levitating magician, and an irritable old woman with a "familiar." Meanwhile, Conan Doyle is enchanted by the plight of the capricious Hope Thraxton, who may or may not have a more complicated back-story than it first appears. As Conan Doyle and Wilde participate in séances and consider the possible motives of the assembled group, the clock ticks ever closer to Hope's murder, in The Revenant of Thraxton Hall by Vaughn Entwistle.

Download or read book Fiction and Representation written by Zoltán Vecsey and published by Walter de Gruyter GmbH & Co KG. This book was released on 2019-06-17 with total page 228 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: One of the basic insights of the book is that there is a notion of non-relational linguistic representation which can fruitfully be employed in a systematic approach to literary fiction. This notion allows us to develop an improved understanding of the ontological nature of fictional entities. A related insight is that the customary distinction between extra-fictional and intra-fictional contexts has only a secondary theoretical importance. This distinction plays a central role in nearly all contemporary theories of literary fiction. There is a tendency among researchers to take it as obvious that the contrast between these two types of contexts is crucial for understanding the boundary that divides fiction from non-fiction. Seen from the perspective of non-relational representation, the key question is rather how representational networks come into being and how consumers of literary texts can, and do, engage with these networks. As a whole, the book provides, for the first time, a comprehensive artefactualist account of the nature of fictional entities.

Download or read book A Realistic Theory of Categories written by Roderick M. Chisholm and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 1996-08-28 with total page 162 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book can be viewed as a summation of Roderick Chisholm's views on an enormous range of topics in metaphysics and epistemology.

Download or read book From Truth to Reality written by Heather Dyke and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2009-06-02 with total page 364 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Questions about truth and questions about reality are intimately connected. One can ask whether numbers exist by asking "Are there numbers?" But one can also ask what arguably amounts to the same question by asking "Is the sentence 'There are numbers' true?" Such semantic ascent implies that reality can be investigated by investigating our true sentences. This line of thought was dominant in twentieth century philosophy, but is now beginning to be called into question. In From Truth to Reality, Heather Dyke brings together some of the foremost metaphysicians to examine approaches to truth, reality, and the connections between the two. This collection features new and previously unpublished material by JC Beall, Mark Colyvan, Michael Devitt, John Heil, Frank Jackson, Fred Kroon, D. H. Mellor, Luca Moretti, Alan Musgrave, Robert Nola, J. J. C. Smart, Paul Snowdon, and Daniel Stoljar.

Download or read book Conan the Barbarian written by Robert Howard and published by CreateSpace. This book was released on 2012-09-15 with total page 214 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This collector-quality edition includes the complete text of four of Robert E. Howard's original classic tales of swords and sorcery, magic and mayhem, and high adventure in the Hyborian Age. Howard's indomitable Conan the Barbarian hacks and slashes his way through wizards, warriors and unearthly forces in this freshly edited and newly typeset edition. With a large 6"x9" page size, this Summit Classic edition is printed on heavyweight bright white paper with a fully laminated cover featuring an original full color design. Page headers and modern page design that echoes the look and feel of traditional book publishing values exemplify the attention to detail given this volume. This Summit Classics volume contains these classic tales by Robert E. Howard: The Queen of the Black Coast, 1934 The Devil in Iron, 1934 The Jewels of Gwahlur, 1935 The People of the Black Circle, 1934 Robert Ervin Howard (January 22, 1906 - June 11, 1936) was a prolific contributor to a variety of pulp fiction magazines in a writing career cut short by his suicide by gunshot at thirty years of age. In addition to poetry and newspaper content, Howard wrote numerous short stories in a variety of pulp genres, including boxing stories, westerns, detective stories, and historical and contemporary adventure fiction. Best known as the creator of Conan the Barbarian, Howard is often regarded as the father of the "sword and sorcery" genre, and Conan eclipsed Howard's other popular characters, most notably Solomon Kane. While very widely read in the pulps, Howard's work did not begin to appear in book form until after his death. Sadly, failures to file and renew documents and publish notices then required by copyright law, especially by the publishers of Weird Tales magazine and by Howard himself, allowed much of Howard's work to slip into the public domain quickly. Poor quality, badly-edited short-run editions circulated periodically, and Howard's work became increasingly obscure until the 1960's, and '70's, when quality paperback versions presented an extensive lineup of "Conan" material, and launched the modern revival of Howard's sword-wielding barbarian, leading to comics, movies, new stories (mainly written by others either from whole cloth or unfinished stories and notes by Howard) and the taciturn Cimmerian's status as a major fictional character.