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The Prestige

Genre
Thriller
Rating
PG-13
Released
20 October, 2006
The Prestige

The Prestige is a 1995 novel by British writer Christopher Priest. It tells the story of a prolonged feud between two stage magicians in late 1800s England. It is epistolary in structure; that is, it purports to be a collection of real 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. The novel received the James Tait Black Memorial Prize for best fiction and the World Fantasy Award for Best Novel.

Author Christopher Priest
Audio read by Peter Kenny
Publisher Touchstone, Simon & Schuster

About The Prestige

Competing magicians sacrifice everything to outwit one another in this Christopher Nolan-directed mystery thriller set in London at the end of 19th century.

Achievement of The Prestige

The movie was co-written by brothers Jonathan Nolan and Christopher Nolan, and adapted from a novel of the same name by Christopher Priest.

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