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| Author | Robert E. Howard andL. Sprague de Camp |
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| Cover artist | John Duillo |
| Language | English |
| Series | Conan the Barbarian |
| Genre | Sword and sorcery |
| Publisher | Lancer Books |
Publication date | 1968 |
| Publication place | United States |
| Media type | Print (paperback) |
| Pages | 223 |
Conan the Freebooter is a 1968 collection of fivefantasy short stories by American writersRobert E. Howard andL. Sprague de Camp, featuring Howard'ssword and sorcery heroConan the Barbarian. Most of the stories originally appeared in the fantasy magazineWeird Tales in the 1930s. The book has been reprinted a number of times by various publishers, and has also been translated into German, Spanish,Portuguese,Dutch,Swedish, Italian, and Japanese. It was later gathered together withConan andConan of Cimmeria into the omnibus collectionThe Conan Chronicles (1989).
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 Khauran.
Chronologically, the five short stories collected asConan the Freebooter fall betweenConan of Cimmeria andConan the Wanderer.
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