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4/5 AbeBooks Language English Publication date 1968 Pages 223 pp Publisher Lancer Books | 4/5 Goodreads Cover artist John Duillo Series Conan the Barbarian Media type Print (Paperback) Originally published 1968 Country United States of America | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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Genres Fantasy, Short story, Sword and sorcery, Speculative fiction Similar L Sprague de Camp books, Conan Universe books, Sword and sorcery books | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Conan the Freebooter is a 1968 collection of five fantasy short stories written by Robert E. Howard and L. Sprague de Camp, featuring Howard's seminal sword and sorcery hero Conan the Barbarian. Most of the stories originally appeared in the fantasy magazine Weird Tales in the 1930s. The book has been reprinted a number of times since by various publishers, and has also been translated into German, Spanish, Portuguese, Dutch, Swedish, Italian, and Japanese. It was later gathered together with Conan and Conan of Cimmeria into the omnibus collection The Conan Chronicles (1989).
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Plot summary
In these stories from Conan's late twenties, the Cimmerian is a mercenary with the Free Company in the city-states of Shem and the lands to the north and east, a war leader of the steppe-raiding Kozaki, and finally a soldier in the service of the kingdom of Kauran.
Chronologically, the five short stories collected as Conan the Freebooter fall between Conan of Cimmeria and Conan the Wanderer.