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The complete, unabridged text of William Wilson by Edgar Allan Poe, with vocabulary words and definitions.
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leT me call myself, foR The pResenT, William Wilson. ThaT is not my real name. That name has already been the cause of the horror — of the anger of my family. Have not the winds carried my name, with my loss of honor, to the ends of the earth? Am I not forever dead to the world? — to its honors, to its flowers, to its golden hopes? And a cloud, hea...
in The fiRsT paRT of my sToRy i spoke abouT my life aT my fiRsT school, and about the other boys — over whom I gained firm control. But there was one boy who would not follow my commands, who would not do what I told him to, as the other boys did. His name was the same as mine — William Wilson — although he did not belong to my family in any way. H...
you Will RemembeR ThaT in The lasT paRT of my sToRy i Told of my experiences in my first school; I spoke of my early meetings with a boy who looked and behaved as I did — whose name was even the same as mine: William Wilson. I told of the night when I went to Wilson’s room, with a plan to hurt him. What I saw that night so frightened me that I left...
as i ended The lasT paRT of my story, I was speaking of that terrible evening when I played cards with a young gentle man called Glendinning. We were in the room of one of my friends at Oxford University. I had just real-ized that the young man, weak of mind and weakened by wine, had allowed me to win from him everything he owned. I was still tryin...
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Upon my entering he strode hurriedly up to me, and, seizing me by the arm with a gesture of petulant impatience, whispered the words “William Wilson!” in my ear. I grew perfectly sober in an instant.
‘William Wilson’: summary. First, a brief summary of the plot of ‘William Wilson’. The narrator tells us that although the path to evil is commonly assumed to be a slippery slope, for him it was more of a steep and rapid decline – very suddenly, he found himself capable of acts of extreme depravity.
Jul 11, 2023 · Historical Texts: Manuscripts and Authorized Printings (full text): Text-01 — “William Wilson. A Tale” — 1839 — (There are no known draft manuscripts or scratch notes reflecting the original effort of composition.) Text-02 — “William Wilson. A Tale” — 1839. Text-02a — “William Wilson.
"William Wilson" is a short story by American writer Edgar Allan Poe, first published in 1839 in The Gift, with a setting inspired by Poe's formative years on the outskirts of London. The tale features a doppelgänger .
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WILLIAM WILSON by Edgar Allan Poe Let me call myself, for the present, William Wilson. I am ashamed to tell you my real name, which is known and hated all over the world. Because of my evil life, I no longer enjoy the love and honour of others; and I have no ordinary human hopes or expectations.
