# Strange Stories

Author: Allen, Grant, 1848-1899; Du Maurier, George, 1834-1896 [Illustrator]

Genre: Category: Short Stories

Language: English

License: Public domain

Source: https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/38575

Amazon editions: https://www.amazon.com/s?k=Strange+Stories+Allen&tag=cyberlibrar00-20

## Summary

shows himself at once to be a very poor introspective psychologist. "The Child of the Phalanstery," to take another case, is a more ideal effort to realize the moral conceptions of a community brought up under a social and ethical environment utterly different from that by which we ourselves are now surrounded. In like manner, almost all the stories (except the lightest among them) have their germ or prime motive in some scientific or quasi-scientific idea; and this narrow link which thus connects them at bottom with my more habitual sphere of work must serve as my excuse to the regular story-tellers for an otherwise unwarrantable intrusion upon their private preserves. I trust they will...

## Chapters

- [did. If he persuades himself that he does really so believe, then he](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/strange-stories-38575/chapters/1/index.md)
- [part I have picked up whatever I know (and that's not much) wholly by](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/strange-stories-38575/chapters/3/index.md)
- [act I was really committing. To take a rise out of the Professor, and to](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/strange-stories-38575/chapters/2/index.md)