The Great Victorian Collection
First UK edition | |
| Author | Brian Moore |
|---|---|
| Genre | Fantasy |
| Publisher | Jonathan Cape (UK) Farrar, Straus & Giroux (US) McClelland and Stewart (Canada) |
Publication date | 2 June 1975 (US) |
| Preceded by | Catholics (1972) |
| Followed by | The Doctor's Wife (1976) |
The Great Victorian Collection, published in 1975, is a fantasy novel by Northern Irish-Canadian writer Brian Moore.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.
It won the 1975 James Tait Black Memorial Prize for Fiction and the Governor General's Award for English-language fiction.