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Copy/paste the text below into your blog. <a href="http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/74404.The_Cornish_Trilogy?utm_medium=api&amp;utm_source=blog_review" style="float: left; padding-right: 20px"><img alt="The Cornish Trilogy" border="0" src="http://photo.goodreads.com/books/1170852642m/74404.jpg" /></a> <a href="http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/74404.The_Cornish_Trilogy?utm_medium=api&utm_source=blog_review">The Cornish Trilogy</a> by <a href="http://www.goodreads.com/author/show/23129.Robertson_Davies">Robertson Davies</a><br/><br/> <a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/5317725?utm_medium=api&utm_source=blog_review"><h3>My review</h3></a> rating: 5 of 5 stars<br/>The series that made Davies one of my favorite writers. His language is brilliant, his characters are fantastically human, but it's the way he can delve into any subject--operatic vocal performance, the medieval diet, art forgery, Rabelais, gypsy fortune-telling--that makes his books such a delight. <br/> <br/>The last book in this trilogy, The Lyre of Orpheus, is also the source of one of the best lines ever: "A Philistine is someone who is content to live in a wholly unexplored world." <br/><br/><a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/list/315652?utm_medium=api&utm_source=blog_review">View all my reviews.</a>