The Prestige
first publication date: 1995
genre: horror novel, steampunk novel, epistolary novel
original title: The Prestige
original language: English
follows: Burn Me Wicked
The Prestige is a 1995 fantasy novel by British writer Christopher Priest. It tells the story of a prolonged feud between two stage magicians in late 1800s England. Its structure is that of a collection of diaries that were kept by the protagonists and later collated. The title derives from the novel's fictional practice of stage illusions having three parts: the setup, the performance, and the prestige (effect).The novel received the James Tait Black Memorial Prize for best fiction and the World Fantasy Award for Best Novel. Source: Wikipedia (en)
Editions
6- date of publication: 1997ISBN-13: 978-0-312-85886-5
- date of publication: 2005ISBN-13: 978-0-575-07580-1
- ISBN-13: 978-0-575-11496-8
- ISBN-13: 978-0-671-71924-1
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