A Breath of Air Spiritual If actuality makes modernity

If actuality makes modernity

Originally published in 1960

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A Breath of Air Spiritual If actuality makes modernityWe are such stuff as dreams are made on: and our little life is rounded with a sleep, cries Prospero in Shakespeares The Tempestfrom which play Rumer Godden took the story of this novel, A Breath of Air. In cast of character and plot structure, parallels are certainly presentMr. van Loomis is the novels magician and ruler; Charis, his literate, island bound daughter, is Miranda; the playwright Valentine is Ferdinand; and the exiled, brutish Mario is