The Great Victorian Collection

The Great Victorian Collection

First UK edition
Author	Brian Moore
Publisher	Jonathan Cape (UK) Farrar, Straus & Giroux (US) McClelland and Stewart (Canada)
Publication date	1975

The Great Victorian Collection, published in 1975, is a novel by Northern Irish-Canadian writer Brian Moore. Set in Carmel, California, it tells the story of a man who dreams that the empty parking lot he can see from his hotel window has been transformed by the arrival of a collection of priceless Victoriana on display in a vast open-air market. When he awakes he finds that he can no longer distinguish the dream from reality.

The book won the 1975 James Tait Black Memorial Prize For Fiction^[1] and, in Canada in 1975, the Governor General's Award for English language fiction.^[2]

Thomas M. Disch included The Great Victorian Collection in his list of "modern classic" fantasy novels.^[3]

References

1. "The Man Booker Prizes: Brian Moore". Retrieved November 3, 2011.
2. "Governor General's Literary Awards" [table of winners, 1936–1999]. online guide to writing in canada (track0.com/ogwc). Retrieved 18 August 2015.
3. Thomas M. Disch, "13 Great Works of Fantasy from the Last 13 Years", in Rod Serling's The Twilight Zone Magazine, July–August 1983 . TZ Publications, Inc. (p. 61)