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.
See also: The Prestige (film), Prestige, Prestige picture, Prestige Group, Occupational prestige, and Prestige (sociolinguistics).