Sword Woman and Other Historical Adventures
Format: kindle
ASIN: B009I6OVFC
Publish date: January 25th 2011
Publisher: Del Rey Books
Pages no: 576
Edition language: English
Dark Agnes is a rare thing in the writings of Robert E. Howard: a female protagonist. As she says herself, "I drink, fight, and live like a man," and so it is that, once having killed the man she is being forced to marry, she is little different from a myriad other of Howard's fighting heroes. Which...
Recommended for Howard completists.This is an interesting book, but there's a reason Howard was more known for his fantasy than his historical adventures. Well, not that these stories aren't really fantasy - they're all about Howard's personal fantasy of manly warriors doing military things. But mag...