WILLIAM WILSON by EDGAR ALLEN POE

1001 Classic Short Stories & Tales

Jon Hagadorn

Fiction, Arts

4.5 • 1.2K Ratings

🗓️ 20 October 2019

⏱️ 62 minutes

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Summary

In this story a young man attending school in England meets his doppleganger,or double, who looks and dresses the same,and even shares the same birthday (which happens to be Poe's as well). His double is a never-ending source of angst for the young man, who believes he is superior to all others, and is given to a profligate lifestyle with few morals and little respect for his peers. but finds that he is outsmarted at every turn by his double, who follows him to both Eton and Oxford and then beyond, finding ways to turn up every time our protagonist takes an immoral turn in life. This story inspired Steven King's book "The Outsider". STORIES BY EDGAR ALLEN POE EDGAR ALLEN POE PODCAST TEST YOUR HISTORY SMARTS! CATCH OUR NEWEST SHOW 1001 HISTORY CHALLENGE HERE: (main website all 1001 shows) https://www.1001storiespodcast.com or HERE: at Google Play: https://play.google.com/music/listen?u=0#/ps/Iwdojx2zx4jj2xj25fwupwrdcxq or HERE at Apple Podcasts https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/1001-history-challenge/id1482436263 CALLING ALL FANS.. REVIEWS NEEDED FOR NEW SHOWS! REVIEWS NEEDED FOR NEW SHOWS! A SECOND NEW SHOW AT 1001- 1001 HISTORY'S BEST STORYTELLERS- OUR INTERVIEWS WITH SOME OF TODAY'S BEST HISTORY AUTHORS ...LINKS BELOW... all shows available at www.1001storiespodcast.com The Apple Podcast Link for 1001 History's Best Storytellers: https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/1001-historys-best-storytellers/id1483649026 The Stitcher.com link for 1001 History's Best Storytellers is:: https://www.stitcher.com/s?fid=474955&refid=stpr. SUPPORT OUR SHOW BY BECOMING A PATRON! www.patreon.com/1001storiesnetwork. Its time I started asking for support! Thank you. Its a few dollars a month OR a one time. (Any amount is appreciated). YOUR REVIEWS AND SUBSCRIPTIONS AT APPLE/ITUNES AND ALL ANDROID HOSTS ARE NEEDED AND APPRECIATED! LINKS BELOW... Open these links to enjoy our shows! APPLE USERS Catch 1001 RADIO DAYS now at Apple iTunes! https://itunes.apple.com/us/podcast/1001-radio-days/id1405045413?mt=2 Catch 1001 Heroes on any Apple Device here (Free): https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/1001-heroes-legends-histories-mysteries-podcast/id956154836?mt=2 Catch 1001 CLASSIC SHORT STORIES at iTunes/apple Podcast App Now: https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/1001-classic-short-stories-tales/id1078098622 Catch 1001 Stories for the Road at iTunes/Apple Podcast now: https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/1001-stories-for-the-road/id1227478901 ANDROID USERS- 1001 Radio Days right here at Player.fm FREE: https://player.fm/series/1001-radio-days 1001 Classic Short Stories & Tales:https://castbox.fm/channel/1001-Classic-Short-Stories-%26-Tales-id1323543?country=us 1001 Heroes, Legends, Histories & Mysteries: https://castbox.fm/channel/1001-Heroes%2C-Legends%2C-Histories-%26-Mysteries-Podcast-id1323418?country=us 1001 Stories for the Road:https://castbox.fm/channel/1001-Stories-For-The-Road-id1324757?country=us Catch ALL of our shows at one place by going to www.1001storiesnetwork.com- our home website with Megaphone. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

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0:00.0	And the Yeah, Welcome back to 1001 Classic Short Stories and Tales.
0:35.0	In keeping with our spook-tober theme,
0:37.4	we have chosen a great story by the first Master of Horror,
0:40.8	Edgar Allan Poe. This story is often overlooked but was one of Poe's
0:45.1	favorites. William Wilson was based on an incident that occurred to Poe while
0:49.7	in school in England, an incident that involved a doppel ganger or a double.
0:56.6	There is a long-held theory, call it an old wives tale if you will, that each of us has a
1:02.3	double or doppel ganger somewhere out there.
1:05.8	Psychiatrists will likely tell you that the double is all in your mind,
1:10.5	the part of your mind that you least enjoy visiting.
1:15.0	It seems as though William Wilson has finally met himself,
1:19.0	and he doesn't like what he sees.
1:21.0	And now, our story. Let me call myself for the present, William Wilson.
1:29.8	The fair page now lying before me need not be sullied with my real appellation.
1:36.1	This has been already too much an object for the scorn, for the horror, for the detestation
1:42.3	of my race. To the uttermost regions of the globe have not
1:47.4	the indignant winds brooded its unparalleled infamy. Oh outcast of all outcasts, most abandoned.
1:56.7	To the earth art thou not forever dead?
2:00.3	To its honors, to its flowers, to its golden aspirations,
2:05.0	and a cloud, dense, dismal, and limitless,
2:09.0	does it not hang eternally between thy hopes and heaven?
2:14.8	I would not, if I could, here or today, embody a record of my later years of unspeakable
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