Winner Take All (Sucker!)

Fiction & Literature, Short Stories
Cover of the book Winner Take All (Sucker!) by Robert E. Howard, Read Books Ltd.
View on Amazon View on AbeBooks View on Kobo View on B.Depository View on eBay View on Walmart
Author: Robert E. Howard ISBN: 9781473398368
Publisher: Read Books Ltd. Publication: February 12, 2015
Imprint: White Press Language: English
Author: Robert E. Howard
ISBN: 9781473398368
Publisher: Read Books Ltd.
Publication: February 12, 2015
Imprint: White Press
Language: English

This early work by Robert E. Howard was originally published in 1930 and we are now republishing it with a brand new introductory biography. 'Winner Take All' is a story in the Sailor Steve Costigan series about a travelling boxer. It is also known by the title 'Sucker Fight'. 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.

View on Amazon View on AbeBooks View on Kobo View on B.Depository View on eBay View on Walmart

This early work by Robert E. Howard was originally published in 1930 and we are now republishing it with a brand new introductory biography. 'Winner Take All' is a story in the Sailor Steve Costigan series about a travelling boxer. It is also known by the title 'Sucker Fight'. 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.

More books from Read Books Ltd.

Cover of the book The Supernatural Omnibus by Robert E. Howard
Cover of the book High-Speed and Carbon Tool Steels by Robert E. Howard
Cover of the book The Farmers Boy - Illustrated by Randolph Caldecott by Robert E. Howard
Cover of the book Alice in Wonderland - A Play - With Illustrations by Bertram Goodhue by Robert E. Howard
Cover of the book The Machinery of Crop Planting - With Information on Seeding, Drilling, Transplanting and Other Mechanical Methods of Crop Planting by Robert E. Howard
Cover of the book Snow White - And other Examples of Jealousy Unrewarded (Origins of Fairy Tales from Around the World) by Robert E. Howard
Cover of the book Hound and Hunting by Robert E. Howard
Cover of the book Indian Architecture (The Islamic Period) by Robert E. Howard
Cover of the book Letters to an Old Garibaldian by Robert E. Howard
Cover of the book Swinging Into Golf by Robert E. Howard
Cover of the book Not Hypnotism But Suggestion; A Lesson In Soul Culture by Robert E. Howard
Cover of the book Everyday Magic - Magic Tricks to Shock Using What is in Your Pocket - Coins, Notes, Handkerchiefs, Cigarettes by Robert E. Howard
Cover of the book A Woman's Burden by Robert E. Howard
Cover of the book Climbing Kangchenjunga - A Collection of Historical Mountaineering Accounts of Expeditions to the Himalayas by Robert E. Howard
Cover of the book European Folk and Fairy Tales - Illustrated by John D. Batten by Robert E. Howard
We use our own "cookies" and third party cookies to improve services and to see statistical information. By using this website, you agree to our Privacy Policy