The Prestige
Author: Christopher Priest
Two 19th-century stage illusionists, the aristocratic Rupert Angiers 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, both men prowl edgily in the background of each other’s shadowy life, driven to th….Read More
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