William Wilson is the story of a narrator who tells his story under the title pseudonym. He recounts his boyhood in England and his subsequent high-class education at the best English schools. For all his life, though, he is dogged by a doppleganger, an identical boy whose life mirrors his exactly. This doppleganger shadows him, exposing his wicked behavior whenever he transgresses. Eventually the narrator is driven to madness and murders the doppleganger, a figurative execution of his own conscience.
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