Author: Robertson Davies

I’ve had the three books of the Cornish Trilogy set aside on my shelf for a long time and decided I should get started on the first one.

I don’t understand the popularity of the book. Three university professors are executors of the will of a fourth professor, Francis Cornish, who collected rooms full of art, sculpture and books. Alternating chapters in the book are told from the point of view of one of the executors and the student of one of the other executors. I had to keep reminding myself as I read the book that these professors were men in their forties, not the stuffy 70-year olds I was imagining.

I’m glad I read this first book – the other two of the trilogy will return to the shelf in the basement and I have no interest in reading them.

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