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While the Smoke Rolled - Couverture souple

Howard, Robert E.

 
9781473323575: While the Smoke Rolled
Couverture souple
ISBN 10 : 1473323576 ISBN 13 : 9781473323575
Editeur : White Press, 2015

Synopsis

This early work by Robert E. Howard was originally published in the 20th century and we are now republishing it with a brand new introductory biography. 'While the Smoke Rolled' is a story in the western genre featuring the character Pike Bearfield. Robert Ervin Howard was born in Peaster, Texas in 1906. During his youth, his family moved between a variety of Texan boomtowns, and Howard – a bookish and somewhat introverted child – was steeped in the violent myths and legends of the Old South. At fifteen Howard began to read the pulp magazines of the day, and to write more seriously. The December 1922 issue of his high school newspaper featured two of his stories, 'Golden Hope Christmas' and 'West is West'. In 1924 he sold his first piece – a short caveman tale titled 'Spear and Fang' – for $16 to the not-yet-famous Weird Tales magazine. Howard's most famous character, Conan the Cimmerian, was a barbarian-turned-King during the Hyborian Age, a mythical period of some 12,000 years ago. Conan featured in seventeen Weird Tales stories between 1933 and 1936 which is why Howard is now regarded as having spawned the 'sword and sorcery' genre. The Conan stories have since been adapted many times, most famously in the series of films starring Arnold Schwarzenegger.

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Présentation de l'éditeur

This early work by Robert E. Howard was originally published in the 20th century and we are now republishing it with a brand new introductory biography. 'While the Smoke Rolled' is a story in the western genre featuring the character Pike Bearfield. Robert Ervin Howard was born in Peaster, Texas in 1906. During his youth, his family moved between a variety of Texan boomtowns, and Howard – a bookish and somewhat introverted child – was steeped in the violent myths and legends of the Old South. At fifteen Howard began to read the pulp magazines of the day, and to write more seriously. The December 1922 issue of his high school newspaper featured two of his stories, 'Golden Hope Christmas' and 'West is West'. In 1924 he sold his first piece – a short caveman tale titled 'Spear and Fang' – for $16 to the not-yet-famous Weird Tales magazine. Howard's most famous character, Conan the Cimmerian, was a barbarian-turned-King during the Hyborian Age, a mythical period of some 12,000 years ago. Conan featured in seventeen Weird Tales stories between 1933 and 1936 which is why Howard is now regarded as having spawned the 'sword and sorcery' genre. The Conan stories have since been adapted many times, most famously in the series of films starring Arnold Schwarzenegger.

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Éditeur
White Press
Date d'édition
2015
Langue
anglais
ISBN 10 
1473323576
ISBN 13 
9781473323575
Reliure
Broché
Nombre de pages
32
Coordonnées du fabricant
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