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1975 novel by Brian Moore

The Great Victorian Collection
First UK edition
AuthorBrian Moore
GenreFantasy novel
PublisherJonathan Cape (UK)
Farrar, Straus & Giroux (US)
McClelland and Stewart (Canada)
Publication date2 June 1975 (US)
Preceded byCatholics (1972) 
Followed byThe Doctor's Wife (1976) 

The Great Victorian Collection, published in 1975, is a fantasy 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 and, in Canada in 1975, the Governor General's Award for English-language fiction.

The American science fiction author and poet Thomas M. Disch included The Great Victorian Collection in his list of "modern classic" fantasy novels.

References

  1. "The Man Booker Prizes: Brian Moore". Archived from the original on 21 May 2011. Retrieved 3 November 2011.
  2. "Governor General's Literary Awards" . online guide to writing in canada (track0.com/ogwc). Retrieved August 18, 2015.
  3. Disch, Thomas M. "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)
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