William Wilson in Baudelaire's French and in English
At school the narrator meets a boy with his name, his birthday and, it seems, his face. The other William Wilson speaks only in a whisper and appears at every turning point of his life. Poe's story of a man and his double is a confession, told by a narrator too ashamed to give his real name.
The French is by Charles Baudelaire, matched to the English sentence by sentence. His words are kept; only the spelling and grammar were brought up to today's rules.
What's in the book
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The full story. In the PDF each English passage is followed by its French translation. In the EPUB they sit side by side, English on the left.
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Characters, background and notes on Poe, the story and the language.
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A Book Frequency Dictionary of the 1,708 French nouns, verbs, adjectives and adverbs in the story, most frequent first, with part of speech, IPA pronunciation and English meaning.
Who it's for
Intermediate learners ready for longer sentences and a richer vocabulary than a short story usually gives them.
Details
- Edgar Allan Poe, translated by Charles Baudelaire
- French-English edition, 2026, about 72 pages (6 x 9 inch PDF)
- E-book: EPUB, plus a PDF in two page sizes (6 x 9 and 5.5 x 8.5 inch)
- Publisher: M.U.W. Edu Media & Publishing Ltd. (MostUsedWords)
- 30-day money-back guarantee
