The Other
THE HAPPY PRINCE AND OTHER TALES is a collection of fables - THE HAPPY PRINCE had been, in life, a joyful personality. However, now, immortalised by a gold and jewel encrusted statue, he's saddened by the poverty of his citizens. Unable to move, he enlists the help of a swallow to help his people ... In THE NIGHTINGALE AND THE ROSE, a nightingale overhears a student complaining that his professor's daughter will not dance with him, as he is unable to give her a red rose. But will the nightingale's sacrifice be enough?
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It is 1935, and identical thirteen-year-old twins Niles and Holland Perry spend the summer on their family's Connecticut farm with their grieving mother and their Russian grandmother. Niles is the gentle one and Holland is the dark one, and a string of accidents starts to crowd the farm.
Multiple novels share this title. The most commonly searched is The Other by Thomas Tryon (1971), a Southern gothic horror novel. Tryon was also the author of Harvest Home.
Yes. The Other is widely cited as a foundational 1970s horror novel and influenced Stephen King and others. It twins the unreliable-narrator and creepy-twin tropes that have become genre staples.
The Other is 50 pages in standard print editions, though page counts vary slightly between hardcover, paperback, and large-print formats.
At an average reading pace of about 250 words per minute, The Other takes most readers under an hour to finish.
The Other is a standalone novel by Oscar Wilde, not part of a series.
The Other is available in hardcover, paperback, ebook, and audiobook formats from Amazon, Bookshop.org, ThriftBooks, and most major bookstores.
