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The prestige

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An edition of The Prestige (1901)

The prestige

Large print edition.

by

  • ★★★ ★ 3.7 (6 ratings) ·
  • 56 Want to read
  • 2 Currently reading
  • 8 Have read

Two 19th century stage illusionists, the aristocratic Rupert Angier and the working-class Alfred Borden, engage in a bitter and deadly feud; the effects are still being felt by their respective families a hundred years later. Working in the gaslight-and-velvet world of Victorian music halls, they prowl edgily in the background of each other's shadowy life, driven to the extremes by a deadly combination of obsessive secrecy and insatiable curiosity. At the heart of the row is an amazing illusion they both perform during their stage acts. The secret of the magic is simple, and the reader is in on it almost from the start, but to the antagonists the real mystery lies deeper. Both have something more to hide than the mere workings of a trick.

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Publisher
Windsor/Paragon
Language
English
Pages
451

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Subjects

Magicians, Journalists, Fiction, Fiction, general, England, fiction, Journalists, fiction, Fiction, horror, Music-halls, History, Music halls, Fiction, fantasy, general, Fiction, historical

Places

England

Times

19th century

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The prestige
2007, Windsor/Paragon
in English - Large print edition.
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Cover of: The Prestige
The Prestige
October 3, 2006, Tor Books
Mass Market Paperback in English
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The Prestige
Mar 10, 2006, Orion Books, Orion Publishing Group, Limited
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Cover of: The Prestige (Gollancz)
The Prestige (Gollancz)
February 10, 2005, Gollancz
Paperback in English - New Ed edition
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Le Prestige
May 16, 2001, Denoël
Paperback in French
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The prestige
1997, TOR/Tom Doherty Associates
in English
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Edition Notes

Originally published: London: Simon & Schuster, 1995.

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[Bath]

Classifications

Dewey Decimal Class
823.914

The Physical Object

Pagination
451 pages
Number of pages
451

ID Numbers

Open Library
OL32134998M
Internet Archive
prestige0000prie_w4t1
ISBN 10
140561708X, 1405617098
ISBN 13
9781405617086, 9781405617093
OCLC/WorldCat
973461267

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First Sentence

"It began on a train, heading north through England, although I was soon to discover that the story had really begun more than a hundred years earlier."

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