John Watson

The story of Tristan is well known in the Western tradition of Romance. Few have not heard of Wagner's opera and the love elixir which Tristan and Iseut drink by accident. The story is already well established in the early medieval period, where there are several competing manuscripts, most of them incomplete for various reasons. John Watson has revisited these medieval origins and achieved a synthesis, a complete Tristan. Here are the sea voyages,...

In Montparnasse between the wars, Kiki, 'Queen of Montparnasse', danced and sang; Prévert created Baptiste there; Desnos traveled astrally, then woke to harvest the crop; painters- Kisling, Pascin, Foujita, Modigliani, Derain and others, labored and partied there; Bronia came from Holland, destined to meet Radiguet, Cocteau's Boy Wonder; later she would, marry René Clair; Satie opened umbrellas there, always hoping for rain. There are triumphs,...

Nothing much ever happens in the wild west town of Sundown. Sheriff Otis Grady and his deputies keep the peace and show no mercy to those who dare to step out of line. Their reputation is legendary and about to be put to the test. It all begins when a mysterious man named Renfield rolls into town in a wagon with three coffins loaded on back. He is on his way to Tombstone to claim the bounty on the Lazarus brothers and needs a place to rest up for...

From the meteor crater in Australia's northwest to the fashionable Galleria in Rowe Street, Sydney, Gosse steps out in mid-century. Sydney, in an era before computers, is relatively innocent. Circular Quay still dips its encrusted planking into the harbor; the coffee shops are just discovering coffee; Krishnamurti could still be expected to walk through the Heads. Here Gosse falls under the spell of several would-be wizards who will spin a tale and...

They often say that you can't go home again, but for Keith Mills, there is no other option.Recently released from rehab and mourning the death of his mother, Keith inherits the family home where his father was brutally murdered 15 years earlier. It's not the ideal place to create a new beginning, but Keith is determined to make it work.His plans for a peaceful existence are soon shattered, though, as a clerical error see's the wrong cremains delivered...

The rewriting of prose texts in iambics is perhaps primarily a way of reading them with deliberation; the texts here, favorites of course, have much in common. Those from Lampedusa posit the possibility of extraordinary events. Similarly, 'Sylvie' depends on extremities of tenderness exemplified by the scene in the Othys section when the narrator and Sylvie, descending the stairs, stage a re-enactment. And, in the scene from Dali's novel Hidden Faces...

Daphnis and Chloe is the most acclaimed of the early Greek novels. Its popularity is enhanced by the splendid illustrations it has generated - from High Victorian to Bonnard and Maillol, and of course musically in the ballet of Ravel. There are numerous translations of the prose text of Longus, but the reader may sense that something is missing, that some poetic charm in the original has been lost. Accordingly, John Watson has devised a metrical version...

Poor Cyrus felt he could bring little to the farm but in these 12 stories he proves himself wrong. They are designed to be read by adults to children or by children on their own, and celebrate Cyrus cunning and resourcefulness as he deals with the problems of the farm and his fellow animals,.

Cuando Lauren Tanner vino a Baker Street para pedirnos que protegiéramos a su marido y nos enseñó aquella máscara, no pudimos ni siquiera imaginar que aquello no sería más que el comienzo de una peligrosa aventura que nos llevaría a Sherlock Holmes y a mí a luchar contra una peligrosa organización de espías, con infiltrados en el gobierno y surgida con el propósito de desestabilizar el Imperio e incluso de provocar un atentado en suelo...

Mastering Marketing is a step-by-step guide for startup entrepreneurs, small business owners and anyone looking for a "big picture" understanding of marketing. The goal is to empower you to understand marketing and business development as a system. The purpose being to give you greater control and a logical sequence to follow; so you take on the right things in the right order. Mastering Marketing divides the process into three developmental stages,...