The Mystery of Pain: Free Audiobook and Listening Guide
The Mystery of Pain by James Hinton: the LibriVox audiobook summary, 9 original MP3 tracks, 2:02:23 running time and a link to listen.

The Mystery of Pain, credited to James Hinton, 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 Mystery of Pain by James Hinton. Read in English by Ethan D. Gilkey This book is addressed to the sorrowful, ... to whom their own or others' pain is a daily burden, upon whose hearts it weighs with an intolerable anguish. I seek to speak to these ; not as a teacher, but as a fellow. Sharing their feeling, and knowing well how vain is the attempt to throw off misery, or to persuade ourselves that life is better than it is, I would fain share with them also some thoughts that have seemed to me capable of casting a bright gleam of light athwart the darkness, and, if they are true, of bringing an immense, an incredible joy out of the very bosom of distress. - Summary by James Hinton
Recording facts
- Recording title: The Mystery of Pain
- Author credits: James Hinton
- Language: English
- Original MP3 tracks: 9
- Listed recording duration: 2:02:23
Catalogue topics
- philosophy
- faith
- suffering
- hope
- grief
- pain
Track guide
- 01 - Chapter One — 14:22
- 02 - Chapter Two — 11:43
- 03 - Chapter Three — 8:52
- 04 - Chapter Four — 15:39
- 05 - Chapter FIve — 16:09
- 06 - Chapter Six — 11:13
- 07 - Chapter Seven — 18:16
- 08 - Chapter Eight — 17:22
- 09 - Chapter Nine — 8:47
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