In Search of Love and Beauty. Ruth Prawer Jhabvala

      

       By the same author

      NOVELS

      To Whom She Will (US Amrita)

       The Nature of Passion

       Esmond in India

       The Householder

       Get Ready for Battle

       A Backward Place

      A New Dominion (US Travelers)

       Heat and Dust

       Three Continents

       Poet and Dancer

       Shards of Memory

       East Into Upper East

      STORIES

       Like Birds, Like Fishes

       A Stronger Climate

       An Experience of India

       How I Became a Holy Mother

       Out of India (Selected Stories)

      © Copyright 1983 by Ruth Prawer Jhabvala

      First Counterpoint paperback edition 1999.

      All rights reserved under International and Pan-American Copyright Conventions. No part of this book may be used or reproduced in any manner whatsoever without written permission from the Publisher, except in the case of brief quotations embodied in critical articles and reviews.

      Library of Congress Cataloging-in-Publication Data

      Jhabvala, Ruth Prawer, 1927–.

      In search of love and beauty / by Ruth Prawer Jhabvala.

      p. cm.

      I. Title.

      PR9499.3.J5 15 1999

      823—dc21 99-20011

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       ACKNOWLEDGMENT

      I would like to thank the John Simon Guggenheim Memorial Foundation for its generous support.

      Contents

Acknowledgment

      Chapter I

      Chapter II

      Chapter III