The Lust of Hate: Free Audiobook and Listening Guide

The Lust of Hate, credited to Guy Boothby, is available as a LibriVox volunteer audiobook. This guide identifies the recording, its source summary and its audio tracks.

About the work

The LibriVox catalogue summary, preserved with the recording, reads:

LibriVox recording of The Lust of Hate by Guy Boothby. Read in English by Peter John Keeble This is the third Dr Nikola book in a series of five written by Guy Boothby. The main character is Gilbert Pennethorne a man whom "Lady luck" has deserted. A number of commercial failures, estrangement from his family, Unsuccessful gold prospecting in Australia and finally having the location of one of the richest undiscovered gold mines in the world stolen from him by a man whom he classifies as his worst enemy. This tips him over the edge of normal reason, such that his desire for revenge is all consuming. This gives Dr Nikola, ever the master manipulator, the opportunity to utilise Pennethorne’s hatred to his financial advantage by convincing him to murder Richard Bartrand the thief of the mine (now a multi millionaire) in a devilish and bizarre mechanical method. After the deed is done, Pennethorne, essentially a decent man, realises his serious error in being an accomplice to Nikola and flees the country en route for South Africa. Thus his adventures at sea and on land begin and his true nature is divulged. (Peter Keeble)

Recording facts

• Recording title: The Lust of Hate
• Author credits: Guy Boothby
• Language: English
• Original MP3 tracks: 13
• Listed recording duration: 7:18:16

Track guide

1. 00 - My Chance in Life — 51:21
2. 01 - England Once More — 53:14
3. 02 - A Gruesome Tale — 36:41
4. 03 - The Lust of Hate — 38:10
5. 04 - A Strange Coincidence — 32:20
6. 05 - The Wreck of the Fiji Princess — 28:10
7. 06 - The Salvages — 33:16
8. 07 - A Bitter Disappointment — 30:29
9. 08 - We Are Saved — 36:07
10. 09 - South Africa — 21:21
11. 10 - I Tell My Story — 26:41
12. 11 - A Terrible Surprise — 25:44
13. 12 - The End — 24:42

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