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Guy Newell Boothby (13 October 1867 – 26 February 1905) was a prolific Australian novelist and writer, noted for sensational fiction in variety magazines around the end of the nineteenth century. He lived mainly in England. He is best known for such works as the Dr Nikola series, about an occultist criminal mastermind who is a Victorian forerunner to Fu Manchu, and Pharos, the Egyptian, a tale of Gothic Egypt, mummies' curses and supernatural revenge. Rudyard Kipling was his friend and mentor, and his books were remembered with affection by George Orwell

"Book 4 in the “Doctor Nikola” series, continuing the story of an occultist anti-hero seeking immortality and world domination!By 1899, the mysterious literary figure of Dr. Nikola has obtained so strong a hold upon novel readers that the return of this dramatic character needed only be announced to insure immediate attention. And Boothby demonstrated once again the value of suspended interest, and his story held readers until the last page."

"Book 4 in the “Doctor Nikola” series, continuing the story of an occultist anti-hero seeking immortality and world domination!By 1899, the mysterious literary figure of Dr. Nikola has obtained so strong a hold upon novel readers that the return of this dramatic character needed only be announced to insure immediate attention. And Boothby demonstrated once again the value of suspended interest, and his story held readers until the last page."

Dr Nikola's Experiment Guy Boothby Guy Boothbys fourth novel of five about the notorious Doctor Nikola, an occultist anti-hero seeking immortality and world domination. All the titels in the serie: Dr Nikola I - Enter, dr Nikola Dr Nikola II - Dr Nikola Returns Dr Nikola III - The Lust of Hate Dr Nikola IV - Dr Nikola's Experiment Dr Nikola V - Farwell, Nikola All from Ulwencreutz Media We are delighted to publish this classic book as part of our extensive Classic Library collection. Many of the books in our collection have been out of print for decades, and therefore have not been accessible to the general public. The aim of our publishing program is to facilitate rapid access to this vast reservoir of literature, and our view is that this is a significant literary work, which deserves to be brought back into print after many decades. The contents of the vast majority of titles in the Classic Library have been scanned from the original works.

This fourth novel of Boothby's Dr. Nikola series reveals that Nikola has discovered all of the facts necessary to extend a human being's life. He has studied science and magic secrets of Tibetan monks. He explains: "It has been a long and tedious search, but such labour only makes success the sweeter. The machinery is now prepared; all that remains is to fit the various parts together. In six months' time, if all goes well, I will have a man walking upon this earth…

IT is sad enough at any time for a man to be compelled to confess himself a failure, but I think it will be admitted that it is doubly so at that period of his career when he is still young enough to have some flickering sparks of ambition left, while he is old enough to be able to appreciate at their proper value the overwhelming odds against which he has been battling so long and unsuccessfully. This was unfortunately my condition. I had entered the medical profession with everything in my favour. My father had built up a considerable reputation for himself, and, what he prized still more, a competency as a country practitioner of the old-fashioned sort in the west of England. I was his only child, and, as he was in the habit of saying, he looked to me to carry the family name up to those dizzy heights at which he had often gazed, but upon which he had never quite been able to set his foot.

The nefarious and wealthy Nikola has purchased a remote castle in the north of England, where the seclusion will allow him and his new assistant and Nikola’s deaf-mute malformed Chinese servant to conduct his grand experiment on a human subject – the doctor has discovered all of the facts necessary to extend a human being’s life, while studying the science and magic secrets of Tibetan monks.Boothby was a prolific Australian novelist and writer, noted for sensational fiction in variety magazines around the end of the nineteenth century. He lived mainly in England and is best known for such works as the Dr Nikola series; about an occultist criminal mastermind who is a Victorian forerunner to Fu Manchu, and Pharos, the Egyptian. Rudyard Kipling was his friend and mentor and his books were remembered with affection by George Orwell

Book 4 in the “Doctor Nikola” series, continuing the story of an occultist anti-hero seeking immortality and world domination!By 1899, the mysterious literary figure of Dr. Nikola has obtained so strong a hold upon novel readers that the return of this dramatic character needed only be announced to insure immediate attention. And Boothby demonstrated once again the value of suspended interest, and his story held readers until the last page.

"Book 4 in the “Doctor Nikola” series, continuing the story of an occultist anti-hero seeking immortality and world domination!By 1899, the mysterious literary figure of Dr. Nikola has obtained so strong a hold upon novel readers that the return of this dramatic character needed only be announced to insure immediate attention. And Boothby demonstrated once again the value of suspended interest, and his story held readers until the last page."

This fourth novel of Boothby's Dr. Nikola series reveals that Nikola has discovered all of the facts necessary to extend a human being's life. He has studied science and magic secrets of Tibetan monks. He explains: "It has been a long and tedious search, but such labour only makes success the sweeter. The machinery is now prepared; all that remains is to fit the various parts together. In six months' time, if all goes well, I will have a man walking upon this earth who, under certain conditions, shall live a thousand years." To assist him, he hires a destitute young physician, who explains his predicament: "As ill luck would have it, however, I had got into the wrong set, and before I had been two years in the hospital was over head and ears in such a quagmire of debt and difficulties that it looked as if nothing but an absolute miracle co-uld serve to extricate me." That miracle seems to have come to him in the person of Dr. Nikola. The nefarious and wealthy Nikola has purchased a remote castle in the north of England, where the seclusion will allow him and his new assistant and Nikola's deaf-mute malformed Chinese servant to conduct his grand experiment on a human subject.

"Book 4 in the “Doctor Nikola” series, continuing the story of an occultist anti-hero seeking immortality and world domination!By 1899, the mysterious literary figure of Dr. Nikola has obtained so strong a hold upon novel readers that the return of this dramatic character needed only be announced to insure immediate attention. And Boothby demonstrated once again the value of suspended interest, and his story held readers until the last page."

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