title: Grow Long, Blessed Night: Love Poems from Classical India
author:  Martha Ann Selby 
description: `The translations leap from the eye to the ear, viscerally vernacular, as if newly thought in English. The notes make the most arcane problems vividly clear. And the introductory essays, not just about poetry but about sex, women, love, and gender, are in themselves a major contribution to the<br />study of all of these subjects. A pleasure for anyone to read, and a real eye-opener for anyone who claims to know the culture of ancient India, as well as for those who do not.' <br />Wendy Doniger, Mircea Eliade Distinguished Service Professor of the History of Religions at the University of Chicago
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  _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
  
  
  
  
  
  In Search of Love and Beauty
  
  
  
  
  
  Three Continents
  
  
  
  
  
  Poet and Dancer
  
  
  
  
  
  Shards of Memory
  
  
  
  
  
  STORIES
  
  
  
  
  
  Like Birds, Like Fishes
  
  
  
  
  
  A Stronger Climate
  
  
  
  
  
  An Experience of India
  
  
  
  
  
  How I Became a Holy Mother
  
  
  
  
  
  Out of India (Selected Stories)
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
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  © Copyright 1998 by Ruth Prawer Jhabvala
  
  
  
  
  
  First paperback edition 2000
  
  
  
  
  
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