| Author: | Brian Moore |
| Pub Date: | 2 June 1975 (US) |
| Publisher: | Jonathan Cape (UK) Farrar, Straus & Giroux (US) McClelland and Stewart (Canada) |
| Genre: | Fantasy novel |
| 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. 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]
The American science fiction author and poet Thomas M. Disch included The Great Victorian Collection in his list of "modern classic" fantasy novels.[3]