Sword Woman and Other Historical Adventures

Resumen del libro

The immortal legacy of Robert E. Howard, creator of Conan the Cimmerian, continues with this latest compendium of Howard's fiction and poetry. These adventures, set in medieval-era Europe and the Near East, are among the most gripping Howard ever wrote, full of pageantry, romance, and battle scenes worthy of Tolstoy himself. Most of all, they feature some of Howard's most unusual and memorable characters, including Cormac FitzGeoffrey, a half-Irish, half-Norman man of war who follows Richard the Lion-hearted to twelfth-century Palestine or, as it was known to the Crusaders, Outremer; Diego de Guzman, a Spaniard who visits Cairo in the guise of a Muslim on a mission of revenge; and the legendary sword woman Dark Agnès, who, faced with an arranged marriage to a brutal husband in sixteenth-century France, cuts the ceremony short with a dagger thrust and flees to forge a new identity on the battlefield.

Lavishly illustrated by award-winning artist John Watkiss and featuring miscellanea, informative essays, and a fascinating introduction by acclaimed historical author Scott Oden, Sword Woman and Other Historical Adventures is a must-have for every fan of Robert E. Howard, who, in a career spanning just twelve years, won a place in the pantheon of great American writers.

Biografía del autor

(Peaster, Texas, 1906 -Cross Plains, Texas, 1936) fue uno de los impulsores de los relatos de espada y brujería que publicó durante los años treinta, fundamentalmente en la revista Weird Tales. Influyó poderosamente en la moderna fantasía heroica con personajes tan populares como primarios, entre los que destacan Conan el Bárbaro, Kull de Atlantis, Solomon Kane y el guerrero picto Bran Mak Morn, muchos de ellos llevados al cómic y ocasionalmente al cine. Solitario y huraño, desde 1924 mantuvo una estrecha relación epistolar con Howard P. Lovecraft. Muy ligado a su madre, cuando esta entró en coma, él se suicidó.