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Texas John Alden by Robert E. Howard (2014, Trade Paperback)

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Texas John Alden by Howard, Robert E. [Paperback]

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Product Identifiers

PublisherFreeman Press

ISBN-101473323088

ISBN-139781473323087

eBay Product ID (ePID)246507636

Product Key Features

Book TitleTexas John Alden

Number of Pages32 Pages

LanguageEnglish

TopicWesterns

Publication Year2014

IllustratorYes

GenreFiction

AuthorRobert E. Howard

FormatTrade Paperback

Dimensions

Item Height0.1 in

Item Weight1.9 Oz

Item Length8.5 in

Item Width5.5 in

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SynopsisThis early work by Robert E. Howard was originally published in 1944 and we are now republishing it with a brand new introductory biography. 'Texas John Alden' is a story in the western genre featuring the character Buckner Jeopardy Grimes. 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.