William Wilson (short story)
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"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. It also appeared in the 1840 collection Tales of the Grotesque and Arabesque, and has been adapted several times.
The Gift, Carey and Hart, Philadelphia, 1840
Wilson and his "double" at the carnival in an illustration by Byam Shaw for a London edition dated 1909
Stoke Newington retains two parish churches: St Mary's Old Church (left) and New Church (right)
Wilson confronts his "double" in an illustration by Arthur Rackham, 1935
Doppelgänger
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A doppelgänger, sometimes spelled as doppelgaenger or doppelganger, is a biologically unrelated look-alike, or a double, of a living person.
Dante Gabriel Rossetti, How They Met Themselves, watercolor, 1864
A scene in The Student of Prague, where the student Balduin faces his double