An edition of The Prestige (1901)

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An edition of The Prestige (1901)

The prestige

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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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TOR/Tom Doherty Associates
Language
English

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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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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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Classifications

Dewey Decimal Class
823/.914
Library of Congress
PR6066.R55 P74 1997, PR6066.R55 P74 1996, PR6066.R55P74 1997

The Physical Object

Pagination
p. cm.

ID Numbers

Open Library
OL673294M
ISBN 10
0312858868
LCCN
97019381, 96020053
Library Thing
18416
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239239

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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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