Henri: 1902 books

Tandis que le fer et le feu y remplissent tout de leur vie et de leur voix, l’homme erre comme un muet fantôme parmi les gigantesques machines que son génie a créées. Il y a là des hommes, des femmes, des enfants en masse ; ils surveillent la marche des rouages, ils ra?achent les fils rompus, ils...

Le premier soleil du printemps brillait de tout son éclat dans l’azur du ciel. Semblable à la face majestueuse de Dieu qui, souriant à la création, lui dirait : « Debout ! debout ! l’hiver est passé ; reviens à la vie et...

The Bastille is most known for being destroyed - it has endured as a symbol of absolute power that fell to popular anger. But few people, even in France, know anything about the actual prison, notably what it was like inside and the details of how the prisoners were really treated. As it happens,...

Purchases from external suppliers represent 20% and up to 80% of companies' total revenue and keeping these expenses down is a critical issue for global financial performance and competitiveness. As a result, the requirements of Executive Management with respect to the Purchasing Function have...

How can governments stimulate energy-efficiency improvement? This book analyzes environmental policy in the Netherlands to present a wealth of empirical results on the successes and failures of governmental initiatives in environmental policy. Discussion extends to such topics as free-rider effects...

A strengthened fiscal position is at the core of most economic adjustment programs supported by IMF lending, especially for the poorer countries that draw on the IMF's structural adjustment facilities. This paper reviews developments in 23 countries and evaluates their experience with fiscal and structural...

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Just outside Delhi, the capital of India, a man called Mowgli rents a house on the outskirts of the jungle, where he plans to live out the rest of his days. The forest is not nearly as vast as it once was, but the air, the trees and the hills still retain a thousand memories: the cries of birds long...

Old Mowgli tells the tale of the promise made in his youth to kill Shere Khan the tiger, who gets more dangerous by the day as he is consumed by blood lust. Every summer, the sun burns the savannah and dries up the rivers. But this year, water is especially hard to come by and the animals must endure...

As Mowgli draws ever closer to the end of his days, he continues to tell the tale of his extraordinary life to his young friend. His words conjure up the era when he, as a young man, was the king of the jungle, Shere Kahn's vanquisher and the brother of wolves and panthers. It was a time when he was...

This is the fourth and final volume of a superb and moving epilogue to the story of Mowgli that alternates between memories of his youth and the approach of death. But before his time comes, the old king of the jungle wants to go back to his old stamping ground; back to the jungle that, in his heart of hearts, he never really left.

Extrait : "– Alors, votre réponse ? – Je vous l'ai déjà dite, monsieur Bouvreuil, jamais ! – Réfléchissez encore, monsieur Lavarède. – C'est tout réfléchi. Jamais, jamais ! – Mais vous ne comprenez donc pas que vous êtes dans ma main ; que, si vous me poussez à bout, demain je ferai...