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The Hour of the Dragon
The Hour of the Dragon opens a world where kingdoms rest not only on thrones and crowns, but on the courage to stand when everything has been taken away. Conan is not merely a warrior here, but a force that refuses to break beneath betrayal, sorcery, and ancient threats. The story carries the rough grandeur of old legends, the darkness of forgotten powers, and the restless pull of adventure. A book for readers who want to feel the breath of an older world, where fate is claimed through will, steel, and an unyielding heart.
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- Author
- Robert E. Howard
- Language
- Czech
- Edition type
- Public domain
- Publisher / imprint
- ARTales
- Source
- Project Gutenberg
- Reference
- https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/42243
- Publication status
- Published
About the author
Robert Ervin Howard was an American writer and one of the founders of sword and sorcery, giving fantasy a fierce new energy of barbarian heroism, dark magic, and ancient kingdoms. In the Conan the Cimmerian stories, he created a hero written with raw force, speed, and a brooding sense of a world where civilization often seems more fragile than the sword in an exile’s hand. His work includes stories and poems across fantasy, horror, westerns, historical adventure, and detective fiction, most of it published in pulp magazines. Although his heroes seem unbreakable and forever in motion, Howard himself spent most of his life in Cross Plains, Texas, and struggled with loneliness and a deeply sensitive nature. From a small town, he summoned whole lost ages — as if imagination were both an escape route and a battlefield.
About the collection
Adventure and the Call of the Unknown
Stories of journeys, discovery, courage, risk, and the desire to cross the borders of the known world. This collection belongs to books in which maps, seas, distant lands, and unexpected encounters open a space for movement, curiosity, and transformation.