Edgar Allan Poe 
William Wilson 

The story follows a man of ‘a noble descent’ who calls himself William Wilson because, although denouncing his profligate past, he does not accept full blame for his actions, saying that ‘man was never thus tempted before’. After several paragraphs, the narration then segues into a description of Wilson’s boyhood, which was spent in a school ‘in a misty-looking village of England’.