William Wilson

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[William Wilson Ebook Reader]William Wilson is a short story published by Edgar Allan Poe in October 1839 in Burtons Gentlemans Magazine, part of the collection New Extraordinary Stories, with a translation by Charles Baudelaire.
Before that, the short story was translated into French in December 1845 in the newspaper La Quotidienne, making it Poes first short story to have been translated into a foreign language.SummaryThis short story written in the first person tells the life of the narrator who chooses the pseudonym William Wilson.
The story begins in the English countryside, in a school where the particularly intelligent and manipulative character begins his education in the company of other schoolchildren.
A new arrival will turn his life upside down.
This new schoolboy has the same name as that of the narrator and will model the behavior and attitudes of the latter, his only fault being that he cannot raise his voice above a whisper.
Furthermore, he is the only one to compete with him, thus contesting his superiority over his other comrades.
The narrator will become irritated and leave school to continue his studies at Oxford where he learns the vices of the game...
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