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	William Wilson (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-19)
		William Wilson, a young student in a "prison-like" school, describes the school house and his experiences there with the typical haunting gloom of a Poe story.
		The narrator grabs the William Wilson from the "school-boy days,--the namesake, the companion, the rival" and violently stabs him to death.
		The dying Wilson utters, "You have conquered, and I yield.
	www.nadn.navy.mil /EnglishDept/poeperplex/wilson.htm (395 words)

	William Wilson (short story) - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		William Wilson is a short story by Edgar Allan Poe on the theme of the doppelgänger.
		William describes meeting another boy who shared the same name, who had roughly the same appearance, and who was even born on exactly the same date -- January 19, which was also Poe's birthday.
		William eventually attends Eton and Oxford, gradually becoming more debauched and performing what he terms "mischief," such as stealing money from a rich nobleman by cheating him at cards and seducing a married woman.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/William_Wilson_(short_story) (430 words)

	CliffsNotes::Poe's Short Stories:Book Summary and Study Guide
		In his memory, Wilson recalls "gigantic and gnarled trees," ancient houses, the chilliness of deep shady walks, and the "deep, hollow notes of the church-bell." All this can be easily visualized, but Poe's genius is most evident when he creates such a catalogue as this; it is a descriptive stage setting for his story.
		The corrupt secret about Wilson's life which he will shortly reveal to us is also a paradox: At the school is a boy with the same name, the same birthday, and of the same height and build as Wilson and, moreover, he arrives at the school on the same day that Wilson does.
		Wilson staggered through the feeble light of dawn to the vestibule and there he barely perceived a young man, dressed as Wilson was, in the latest fashion.
	www.cliffsnotes.com /WileyCDA/LitNote/id-145,pageNum-19.html (1591 words)

	Andrew Taylor, author of An Unpardonable Crime
		“William Wilson” is one of Poe’s strangest stories.
		Wilson is a rich, spoiled child who slips suddenly into depravity: "From me, in an instant, all virtue dropped bodily as a mantle..." He plunges into “years of unspeakable misery and unpardonable crime”.
		At the heart of the fictional Shield’s story is Wavenhoe's Bank and the families concerned with its fortunes and misfortunes – and especially the women.
	www.andrew-taylor.net /andrewtaylor_letter.htm (983 words)

	HERNDON'S INFORMANTS: Letters, Interviews, and Statements about Abraham Lincoln \| Edited by Douglas L. Wilson and ...
		Wilson was elected in 1855 to the U.S. Senate, where he chaired its Committee on Military Affairs during the Civil War and constantly urged AL to proclaim emancipation.
		Wilson was commissioner of the General Land Ofce in 1860¬61 and again in 1866¬71, serving as chief clerk in the interim.
		A William Wilson served in the Black Hawk War in a Schuyler County company that belonged to the same regiment as the company AL commanded.
	durer.press.uiuc.edu /wilson/html/777.html (491 words)

	William Wilson a Short Story by Edgar Allen Poe
		Perhaps it was this latter trait in Wilson's conduct, conjoined with our identity of name, and the mere accident of our having entered the school upon the same day, which set afloat the notion that we were brothers, among the senior classes in the academy.
		Wilson's retaliations in kind were many; and there was one form of his practical wit that disturbed me beyond measure.
		Be Wilson what he might, this, at least, was but the veriest of affectation, or of folly.
	www.free-short-stories.org.uk /edgar-allen-poe-william-wilson.htm (6075 words)

	GLOSSARY OF KEY TECHNICAL TERMS
		A story that has an AIAS is a short story of fantasy even if the supposed supernatural event it narrates is explained away as a natural occurrence (e.g., as a dream or hallucination) at the end of the story.
		A short story of fantasy whose AIAS might or might not have a supernatural explanation is a "cuento fantástico puro" (short story of fantasy proper).
		The short story of fantasy proper is a relatively recent development (about 200-225 years old) and is perhaps the most rare and complex expression of the fantastic.
	www.public.coe.edu /~nmasonbr/hotlink2.html (1773 words)

	Religious Roots: Bill Wilson Writes the Twelve Steps
		Bill Wilson had previously been ambushed by his old friend and drinking buddy Ebby Thacher at a very vulnerable moment, in December of 1934, when he was sick and detoxing from alcohol in a hospital, and tripping his brains out on delirium tremens and hallucinogenic drugs.
		Bill Wilson often repeated the story of how either Ebby Thacher or Rowland Hazard (he couldn't remember which it was) brought him James' Varieties to read while he was detoxing in the hospital, in December of 1934, the day after he had his "vision of God" while tripping on the hallucinogenc drug belladonna.
		It was Dr. William D. Silkworth who taught the strategy of scaring alcoholics with threats of death and declarations of hopelessness, not Carl Jung.
	www.orange-papers.org /orange-rroot030.html (2958 words)

	83.03.06: Poe Lightly
		To sum it up to have students name the formal characteristics of the short story; that it focuses on a single character and a single crisis, it involves a short period of time, it deals with a single mood and maintains a single tone.
		One element of the short story that Poe is famous for is his use of suspense.
		By narrowing the focus of the story so that all of the action is seen through the character of the insane man himself, Poe gives us a shocking glimpse into the warped mind of a murderer driven by abnormal fear to the planning and execution of a hideous crime.
	www.yale.edu /ynhti/curriculum/units/1983/3/83.03.06.x.html (5634 words)

	Reading Poe in salary: Mark Twain's use of `The Raven,'...
		William Wilson's double, for example, is always in some form of seclusion or hiding place, a small chamber, or closet, while Mark Twain's Conscience appears in the well-lit confines of his library, and further appears only because he feels himself summoned by an off-the-cuff remark which Twain makes.
		William Wilson, in his double, seems to have the perfect image of the avenging conscience.
		At the conclusion of "William Wilson," Poe's conscience is murdered by Wilson.
	www.cswnet.com /~erin/eap5.htm (2801 words)

	Free Essay Doppleganger in Willialm Wilson
		In the books The Secret Sharer by Joseph Conrad, William Wilson by Edgar Allen Poe, and A separate Peace by John Knowles the authors each use the idea of duality to portray the psychological conflicts and resolutions of the protagonists in their respective books.
		William Wilson by Edgar Allen Poe uses the idea of duality to create a conflict and resolution of the protagonist.
		In the short story William Wilson, Edgar Allen Poe uses the idea of duality to portray the psychological conflicts and resolutions of the protagonist.
	www.echeat.com /essay.php?t=27581 (796 words)

	CliffsNotes::Poe's Short Stories:Book Summary and Study Guide
		In the stories of the psychotic criminal, each narrator of those stories is trying to convince his readers through his logical method of narration that he is not mad, and yet each succeeds only in convincing the reader that he is indeed mad.
		In both stories, also, there is an emphasis upon the labyrinthine cellars of the school and the long underground vaults of the Montresor mansion.
		In "William Wilson," the plan against the gambling opponent, Glendinning, is not the main aspect of the story, but it conforms in principle to Montresor's vengeance against Fortunato.
	www.cliffsnotes.com /WileyCDA/LitNote/id-145,pageNum-16.html (481 words)

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	www.free-short-stories.org.uk /edgar-allen-poe-free-short-stories.htm (626 words)

	Wilson, Halsey William (1868-1954) \| Encyclopedia of Communication and Information
		Wilson, founder of one of the first commercially successful bibliographic and indexing enterprises, contributed to the spread of bibliographic citation as a research practice, promoted the genre of reference publishing, and helped standardize library collections, especially in North American public and school libraries.
		Wilson's business success resulted from a combination of factors: close attention to quality, efficient production methods, a unique pricing system, collaboration with his chief customers and his chief competitor, and the long-term dedication of talented key employees—many of them women.
		Wilson never graduated from the university, and after three years he bought his partner out of the bookstore.
	www.bookrags.com /research/wilson-halsey-william-1868-1954-eci-03 (1006 words)

	Ohio Quaker Meetings
		As a result, the monthly meetings at Concord, Short Creek, and Miami were authorized to form a quarterly meeting which was called the Short Creek Quarterly Meeting.
		The Friends at Short Creek built a quarterly meeting house in 1806-1807, a crude one-story brick structure, 45 by 70 feet in size-the largest church building in the state.
		Horton Howard of Short Creek was named clerk, William Wilson was chosen to assist him, and Enoch Harris was selected treasurer.
	www.drwilliams.org /iDoc/Web-209.htm (1914 words)

	University of Arkansas - Daily Headlines
		The scholarly edition of this 19th century novel was edited by John Caldwell Guilds, retired distinguished professor in the humanities at the University of Arkansas, who has been the series editor for what has come to be known as the Arkansas Edition of Simms since 1988.
		William Gilmore Simms's (1806-1870) body of work, a sweeping fictional portrait of the colonial and antebellum South in all its regional diversity, with its literary and intellectual issues, is probably more comprehensive than any other 19th-century Southern author.
		This Gothic tale is reminiscent of James Hogg's Confessions of a Sinner and was written four years before Edgar Allan Poe's "William Wilson." Narrated in the first person, it is considered a pioneering examination of criminal psychology.
	dailyheadlines.uark.edu /8285.htm (441 words)

	Amazon.ca: Tales of Terror and Detection: Books: Edgar Allan Poe (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-19)
		The collection excludes the story for which Poe is credited for having begun the detective genre itself: "The Murders in the Rue Morgue" introduces the characters of Dupin and our narrator, and prepares the scene for the detective figure to fill the gap of reasoning that the overly-methodical Parisian police have left.
		If these stories show us anything about Poe, it is his ability to bring a story to a logical conclusion that still leaves an eerie taste in the reader's mouth.
		Edgar allen poe is one of the greatest short story writers I have ever had the pleasure to read.
	www.amazon.ca /Tales-Terror-Detection-Edgar-Allan/dp/0486287440 (531 words)

	William Wilson by Edgar Allan Poe (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-19)
		My namesake alone, of those who in school phraseology constituted "our set," presumed to compete with me in the studies of the class—in the sports and broils of the play-ground—to refuse implicit belief in my assertions, and submission to my will—indeed, to interfere with my arbitrary dictation in any respect whatsoever.
		In a very short period he had become my debtor to a large amount, when, having taken a long draught of port, he did precisely what I had been coolly anticipating—he proposed to double our already extravagant stakes.
		It was my antagonist—it was Wilson, who then stood before me in the agonies of his dissolution.
	ee.1asphost.com /shortstoryclassics/poewilson.html (6026 words)

	GradeSaver: The Fall of the House of Usher Essay: The Influence of Edgar Allan Poe's Predecessors on His Work (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-19)
		The narration of the main theme through a life story in the manner of these novels is used by Poe in stories such as William Wilson (itself a variant on the Gothic theme of the double).
		We should also remember that the original murder of William by the creature in Frankenstein had an element of 'detective story' to it, as the reader's suspicions are lead on and it is only in the creature's narration that he admits himself the murderer and the mystery of the picture in Justine's possession is explained.
		The "mirrored monstrosity" germinating in Frankenstein is brought to fruition by Poe in William Wilson but with a darker, more complicated twist; the narrator himself transpires to be the evil incarnation of Wilson, whilst his eternal opponent is his conscience, thwarting his indulgences in luxury and deceit.
	www.gradesaver.com /classicnotes/titles/usher/essay1.html (2267 words)

	Nineteenth-century Transatlantic Perceptions of the Novel and Short Story
		With regard to "William Wilson," Lease also alludes to Poe's early stay in England with the Allans and his attendance at the Manor House School from 1818 to 1820.
		Bates considered that "one of the reasons why the short story could not flourish in England in the nineteenth century was the fixity of a society and frame of mind reflected in the Victorian novel.
		Similarly, Shaw claims that the rise of the short story in England was closely linked with the emergence of the modern artist and the arousal of anti-Victorianism in the widest sense towards the end of the nineteenth-century.
	www.victorianweb.org /authors/bulwer/baldellou4.html (1407 words)

	Fiction Collective 2 -- A Literary Alternative Since 1974 (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-19)
		It touches on controversies over the role of science in our lives and deals with cosmetic surgery and the medical uses of human embryos, heart transplants, and regenerated genitalia.
		The story "Metier: Why I Don't Write Like Franz Kafka," implies that Kafka responded in his fiction to questions that no longer need to be asked in fiction.
		The epistolary story, "Conveyance: The Story I Wouldn't Want Bill Wilson to Read," is an intimate letter from a woman who had wanted to write fiction and who now challenges Wilson's reaction to her report of a tragedy.
	fc2.org /wilson/kafka/kafka.htm (217 words)

	Fiction of Edgar Allan Poe
		Short story THE MAN THAT WAS USED UP.
		Short story THE FALL OF THE HOUSE OF USHER.
		Short story WHY THE LITTLE FRENCHMAN WEARS HIS HAND IN A SLING.
	etext.lib.virginia.edu /poe/PoeFiction.html (46 words)

	William Wilson Summary - Edgar Allan Poe
		“William Wilson” is a tale narrated by an infamous criminal who is on the verge of death.
		He is ashamed to reveal his name; William Wilson is an admitted pseudonym.
		The path to the single event responsible for Wilson's criminality begins in an ancient, dreamlike English village whose memories alone now afford him pleasure.
	www.enotes.com /salem-lit/william-wilson (138 words)

	SparkNotes: Poe’s Short Stories: Context
		He was a magazine editor, a poet, a short story writer, a critic, and a lecturer.
		He introduced the British horror story, or the Gothic genre, to American literature, along with the detective story, science fiction, and literary criticism.
		Poe, America’s foremost southern writer before William Faulkner, generated a Gothic ethos from his own experiences in Virginia and other slaveholding territories, and the fl and white imagery in his stories reflects a growing national anxiety over the issue of slavery.
	www.sparknotes.com /lit/poestories/context.html (1125 words)

	Edgar Allan Poe Reviews Hawthorne's 'Twice Told Tales' To Define The Short Story
		Were we called upon however to designate that class of composition which, next to such a poem as we have suggested, should best fulfil the demands of high genius--should offer it the most advantageous field of exertion--we should unhesitatingly speak of the prose tale, as Mr.
		We allude to the short prose narrative, requiring from a half-hour to one or two hours in its perusal.
		The idea here is, that the figure in the cloak is the phantom or reduplication of Sir William Howe; but in an article called "William Wilson," one of the "Tales of the Grotesque and Arabesque," we have not only the same idea, but the same idea similarly presented in several respects.
	pages.prodigy.net /krtq73aa/tales.htm (2692 words)

	Fiction Collective 2 -- A Literary Alternative Since 1974 (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-19)
		William S. Wilson is an art critic who lives in New York City.
		His short story "anthropology: what is lost in rotation," was included in the 1977 edition of The Best American Short Stories.
		"Wilson's lucid and witty reverence for the fascination of the irreducible makes his 'experiments' an irresistible comprehensible whole."
	fc2.org /wilson/wilson.htm (87 words)

	A crime story with some history - Deccan Herald (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-19)
		The epigraph to An Unpardonable Crime is taken from Edgar Allan Poe’s rather hysterical short story of 1839, William Wilson; in it, as in this novel, there is a Manor House School in Stoke Newington presided over by a John Bransby.
		Poe’s character attends it in the story, as does Taylor’s American boy, Edgar Allan (whose surname is that of his foster parents), abandoned by his father, David, an itinerant actor.
		Edgar is unimportant to the story except that his presence is the mechanism by which David Poe, thought to be dead, is brought into the tale.
	www.deccanherald.com /deccanherald/may232004/br4.asp (634 words)

	The Tell
		Everybody has his or her own unique stories, and these stories will help to determine what we become today, and change our way of looking at the world.
		In the story a man grieves over his dead wife, who is taunted by the raven.
		His tales of terror like "Ligea," "William Wilson," and "The Fall of the House of Usher" are examples of Poe's morbid and complexed mind.
	www.tqnyc.org /NYC040522/shortstories/telltaleheart/tellheartmain.htm (1999 words)

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