EL BORAK AND OTHER DESERT ADVENTURES

Book ID/图书代码： 01240010B34270

English Summary/英文概要： Robert E. Howard is famous for creating such immortal heroes as Conan the Cimmerian, Solomon Kane, and Bran Mak Morn. Less well-known but equally extraordinary are his non-fantasy adventure stories set in the Middle East and featuring such two-fisted heroes as Francis Xavier Gordon—known as “El Borak”—Kirby O’Donnell, and Steve Clarney. This trio of hard-fighting Americans, civilized men with more than a touch of the primordial in their veins, marked a new direction for Howard’s writing, and new territory for his genius to conquer.

The wily Texan El Borak, a hardened fighter who stalks the sandscapes of Afghanistan like a vengeful wolf, is rivaled among Howard’s creations only by Conan himself. In such classic tales as “The Daughter of Erlik Khan,” “Three-Bladed Doom,” and “Sons of the Hawk,” Howard proves himself once again a master of action, and with plenty of eerie atmosphere his plotting becomes tighter and twistier than ever, resulting in stories worthy of comparison to Jack London and Rudyard Kipling. Every fan of Robert E. Howard and aficionados of great adventure writing will want to own this collection of the best of Howard’s desert tales, lavishly illustrated by award-winning artists Tim Bradstreet and Jim & Ruth Keegan.

Chinese Summary/中文概要： 罗伯特·霍华德创造的“野蛮人科南”形象在西方文学中是与猿人泰山、吸血伯爵杜库拉、大侦探福尔摩斯齐名的家喻户晓的文学形象，他的另两部著名作品是《所罗门凯恩》和《布兰麦克蒙》。而他的非幻想冒险故事却鲜为人知，这些发生在中东地区的冒险以两位英雄形象为主角——柯比奥多内尔和史蒂夫克拉尼，创造出一段段同样精彩的传奇。霍华德的作品唤起了男人们内心深处的那种被几千年的文明所淡化了的原始冲动，也标志着霍华德过人才华的新领域。
机敏的Texan El Borak，在追踪猎物时犹如一只怀着复仇之心的狼。霍华德以《The Daughter of Erlik Khan》、《Three-Bladed Doom》以及《Sons of the Hawk》三个故事再次证明了自己当之无愧的“冒险故事之王”称号，他的作品可与杰克·伦敦和拉迪亚德·林相媲美。每一个罗伯特·霍华德的书迷以及热衷冒险故事的读者都不该错过这本精彩非凡的冒险故事集。(RH)

Awards/获奖情况：霍华德的写作竟能达到如此高度，他的激情几乎迸发出火花！---史蒂芬·金
霍华德的笔风充满了热情与活力，创造出一个个无比真实的英雄想象。---大卫·格默尔
这种无与伦比的残酷和对生活的恐惧……还有多少作者能够与罗伯特霍华德并驾齐驱呢？---H. P. Lovecraft

About the Author/作者介绍： Robert E. Howard was born January 22, 1906, southwest of Fort Worth. His father, a country physician, moved the family around Texas before settling in the small town of Cross Plains in 1919. While in high school, Howard began submitting stories to magazines, and Weird Tales magazine accepted Spear and Fang. Solomon Kane was the first of his continuing characters to see print; others included King Kull and Bran Mak Morn. Howard tried detective fiction, horror, and Paul Bunyanesque tales, then in 1933, Weird Tales introduced Conan the Cimmerian. In 1935 his mother was admitted to the King’s Daughters Hospital. Told she would never recover, he committed suicide in 1936.

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