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050 4 _aPS
100 1 _aHenry, O.
_q(Spirit),
_d1862-1910
245 1 0 _aMy tussle with the devil, and other stories
264 1 _aSalt Lake City, UT :
_bProject Gutenberg,
_c2026
300 _a1 online resource :
_bmultiple file formats
336 _atext
_btxt
_2rdacontent
337 _acomputer
_bc
_2rdamedia
338 _aonline resource
_bcr
_2rdacarrier
500 _aReceived via a Ouija Board.
500 _a"The barrage fire" (the introduction) signed: Parma (a pseudonym for Albert Houghton Pratt).
500 _aRelease date is 2026-01-12
505 0 _aMy tussle with the devil -- The contest -- Sleeping -- Yearning -- Animals -- Flowers -- Jewels -- Remembrances -- Munitions -- Going home -- My hearth -- The three H's -- The senses -- Fancies -- Yesterday, to-day -- Action, reaction -- A vision.
508 _aCharlene Taylor, Tom Trussel and the Online Distributed Proofreading Team at https://www.pgdp.net (This file was produced from images generously made available by The Internet Archive/American Libraries.)
520 _aMy tussle with the devil, and other stories by O. Henry. It is a collection of short stories, parables, and prose poems written in the early 20th century. Framed in a spiritualist vein, the book meditates on the afterlife, moral choice, love, cruelty, and war, often personifying abstract forces and urging readers toward compassion and inner awakening. The volume opens with claims of messages “from beyond,” then unfolds a series of allegorical vignettes: the title tale stages a sumptuous temptation by a majestic Devil that the narrator decisively rejects; “The Contest” pits a seductive Life against a radiant Death; other pieces recast chain-gang misery, grief, and wartime loss through the transfiguring power of Love. Animals, flowers, and jewels become teachers—condemning cruelty (a vivisected spaniel), honoring loyalty (a ghostly dog who brings a slipper), and urging seekers to value the “diamond” of love above rubies or emeralds. Domestic memories, homely wisdom, and dockside camaraderie (with the dog Dakta choosing “brothers” for a redemptive mission) reinforce the book’s ethic of kindness. Later entries reimagine “munitions” as Kindness, Joy, and Love; depict dying as “going home”; and culminate in a quest in which the key to the Temple of Knowledge is simply love, before a final vision of Peace unfolding its golden wings over a renewed world. (This is an automatically generated summary.)
534 _pOriginally published:
_cNew York: I. M. Y. Company, 1918
653 _aUnited States -- Social life and customs -- 20th century -- Fiction
653 _aSpirit writings
700 1 _aPratt, A. Houghton
_q(Albert Houghton),
_d1878-1941
856 4 0 _uhttps://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/77686
999 _c118406
_d118406