The Prestige

Christopher Priest
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A 19th Century feud between two English stage magicians. Their rivalry centers over instant displacement by electricity from one end of a stage to the other, the contest degenerating into dirty tricks. Told from the perspective of their descendants, a man and a woman.
Genres: FictionFantasyHistorical FictionScience FictionMysteryAudiobookHistoricalHorrorMagicSteampunk
368 Pages

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