Description: DOCTOR NIKOLA by Guy Boothby - Quest for Immortality by a master criminal POB#53437 TITLE: Dr. Nikola AUTHOR: Guy Boothby PUBLISHER: New York: A. L. Burt Company DATE: [n.d.] After 1899DESCRIPTION: 311, [5] pages 19cm CONDITION NOTES: VERY GOOD. Solid page and cover attachment. Caps rubbed. Corners bumped and rubbed. BINDING: Full dark green cloth..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. . Boothby was once well known for his series of novels about Doctor Nikola, an occultist anti-hero seeking immortality and world domination. The adventures of Nikola were launched with the first episode of A Bid for Fortune which was serialised in The Windsor Magazine (a rival to The Strand Magazine). Nikola is described as dressing in "faultless evening dress, slender, having dark peculiar eyes and dark hair, and white toad-coloured skin." . He lives in a bungalow on the Rue de Lafayette in Shanghai. Stanley L. Wood often illustrated the Nikola stories and his portraits depict Dr Nikola in white cravat and fur coat, with his perennial companion, the black cat Apollyon (named after a dark angel) – huge, baleful, gleaming-eyed – perched on Nikola's shoulder. Nikola – cosmopolitan, cultivated, universally feared – is highly intelligent but unscrupulous. . John Clute writes that "The heart of the series is devoted to the Doctor's convoluted search for a Tibetan process that will resuscitate the dead and ensure immortality in the living, and there are some hints that – unhampered by compunctions, armed with psi powers and blessed with a powerful experimental intellect – he may have reached his goal." Listing and template services provided by inkFrog
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Topic: Mystery
Publisher: A. L. Burt Company
Author: Guy Boothby
Subject: Literature & Fiction
Binding: Hardcover
Special Attributes: Dust Jacket
Language: English
Original/Facsimile: Original
Signed: No
Place of Publication: New York
Year Printed: 1900
