The Great Victorian Collection

The Great Victorian Collection
First UK edition
Author	Brian Moore
Genre	Fantasy novel
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. 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]

References

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^ "The Man Booker Prizes: Brian Moore". Archived from the original on 21 May 2011. Retrieved 3 November 2011.
^ "Governor General's Literary Awards" [table of winners, 1936–1999]. online guide to writing in canada (track0.com/ogwc). Retrieved August 18, 2015.
^ 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)

v t e Works by Brian Moore
Novels	Early fiction (1951–57) Judith Hearne (1955) The Feast of Lupercal (1957) The Luck of Ginger Coffey (1960) An Answer from Limbo (1962) The Emperor of Ice-Cream (1965) I Am Mary Dunne (1968) Fergus (1970) The Revolution Script (1971) Catholics (1972) The Great Victorian Collection (1975) The Doctor's Wife (1976) The Mangan Inheritance (1979) The Temptation of Eileen Hughes (1981) Cold Heaven (1983) Black Robe (1985) The Colour of Blood (1987) Lies of Silence (1990) No Other Life (1993) The Statement (1995) The Magician's Wife (1997)
Short stories	The Dear Departed: Selected Short Stories (2020)
Screenplays	The Luck of Ginger Coffey (1964) Torn Curtain (1966) Catholics (TV film, 1973) The Blood of Others (1984) Control (Il giorno prima) (1987) The Temptation of Eileen Hughes (TV film, 1988) Black Robe (1991)

v t e Winners of the Governor General's Award for English-language fiction
1930s	Bertram Brooker, Think of the Earth (1936) Laura Salverson, The Dark Weaver (1937) Gwethalyn Graham, Swiss Sonata (1938) Franklin D. McDowell, The Champlain Road (1939)
1940s	Ringuet, Thirty Acres (1940) Alan Sullivan, Three Came to Ville Marie (1941) G. Herbert Sallans, Little Man (1942) Thomas Head Raddall, The Pied Piper of Dipper Creek (1943) Gwethalyn Graham, Earth and High Heaven (1944) Hugh MacLennan, Two Solitudes (1945) Winifred Bambrick, Continental Revue (1946) Gabrielle Roy, The Tin Flute (1947) Hugh MacLennan, The Precipice (1948) Philip Child, Mr. Ames Against Time (1949)
1950s	Germaine Guèvremont, The Outlander (1950) Morley Callaghan, The Loved and the Lost (1951) David Walker, The Pillar (1952) David Walker, Digby (1953) Igor Gouzenko, The Fall of a Titan (1954) Lionel Shapiro, The Sixth of June (1955) Adele Wiseman, The Sacrifice (1956) Gabrielle Roy, Street of Riches (1957) Colin McDougall, Execution (1958) Hugh MacLennan, The Watch That Ends the Night (1959)
1960s	Brian Moore, The Luck of Ginger Coffey (1960) Malcolm Lowry, Hear Us O Lord from Heaven Thy Dwelling Place (1961) Kildare Dobbs, Running to Paradise (1962) Hugh Garner, Hugh Garner's Best Stories (1963) Douglas LePan, The Deserter (1964) [no award] (1965) Margaret Laurence, A Jest of God (1966) [no award] (1967) Alice Munro, Dance of the Happy Shades (1968) Robert Kroetsch, The Studhorse Man (1969)
1970s	Dave Godfrey, The New Ancestors (1970) Mordecai Richler, St. Urbain's Horseman (1971) Robertson Davies, The Manticore (1972) Rudy Wiebe, The Temptations of Big Bear (1973) Margaret Laurence, The Diviners (1974) Brian Moore, The Great Victorian Collection (1975) Marian Engel, Bear (1976) Timothy Findley, The Wars (1977) Alice Munro, Who Do You Think You Are? (1978) Jack Hodgins, The Resurrection of Joseph Bourne (1979)
1980s	George Bowering, Burning Water (1980) Mavis Gallant, Home Truths: Selected Canadian Stories (1981) Guy Vanderhaeghe, Man Descending (1982) Leon Rooke, Shakespeare's Dog (1983) Josef Škvorecký, The Engineer of Human Souls (1984) Margaret Atwood, The Handmaid's Tale (1985) Alice Munro, The Progress of Love (1986) M. T. Kelly, A Dream Like Mine (1987) David Adams Richards, Nights Below Station Street (1988) Paul Quarrington, Whale Music (1989)
1990s	Nino Ricci, Lives of the Saints (1990) Rohinton Mistry, Such a Long Journey (1991) Michael Ondaatje, The English Patient (1992) Carol Shields, The Stone Diaries (1993) Rudy Wiebe, A Discovery of Strangers (1994) Greg Hollingshead, The Roaring Girl (1995) Guy Vanderhaeghe, The Englishman's Boy (1996) Jane Urquhart, The Underpainter (1997) Diane Schoemperlen, Forms of Devotion (1998) Matt Cohen, Elizabeth and After (1999)
2000s	Michael Ondaatje, Anil's Ghost (2000) Richard B. Wright, Clara Callan (2001) Gloria Sawai, A Song for Nettie Johnson (2002) Douglas Glover, Elle (2003) Miriam Toews, A Complicated Kindness (2004) David Gilmour, A Perfect Night to Go to China (2005) Peter Behrens, The Law of Dreams (2006) Michael Ondaatje, Divisadero (2007) Nino Ricci, The Origin of Species (2008) Kate Pullinger, The Mistress of Nothing (2009)
2010s	Dianne Warren, Cool Water (2010) Patrick deWitt, The Sisters Brothers (2011) Linda Spalding, The Purchase (2012) Eleanor Catton, The Luminaries (2013) Thomas King, The Back of the Turtle (2014) Guy Vanderhaeghe, Daddy Lenin and Other Stories (2015) Madeleine Thien, Do Not Say We Have Nothing (2016) Joel Thomas Hynes, We'll All Be Burnt in Our Beds Some Night (2017) Sarah Henstra, The Red Word (2018) Joan Thomas, Five Wives (2019)
2020s	Michelle Good, Five Little Indians (2020) Norma Dunning, Tainna (2021) Sheila Heti, Pure Colour (2022) Anuja Varghese, Chrysalis (2023)

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