The Burning Secret
by Stefan Zweig
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About This Book
BURNING SECRET is set in an Austrian sanatorium in the 1920's. A lonely twelve-year-old boy is befriended and becomes infatuated by a suave and mysterious baron who heartlessly brushes him aside to turn his seductive attentions to the boy's mother. Stefan Zweig, the author of Beware of Pity and Confusion provides the reader, in this newly available translation, with a study of childhood on the brink of adolescence and a boy's uncontrollable jealousy and feelings of betrayal.
Chapters (18)
- THE BURNING SECRET
- CONTENTS
- THE BURNING SECRET
- CHAPTER I THE PARTNER
- CHAPTER II QUICK FRIENDSHIP
- CHAPTER III THE TRIO
- CHAPTER IV THE ATTACK
- CHAPTER V THE ELEPHANTS
- CHAPTER VI SKIRMISHING
- CHAPTER VII THE BURNING SECRET
- CHAPTER VIII SILENT HOSTILITY
- CHAPTER IX THE LIARS
- CHAPTER X ON THE TRAIL
- CHAPTER XI THE SURPRISE ATTACK
- CHAPTER XII THE TEMPEST
- CHAPTER XIII DAWNING PERCEPTION
- CHAPTER XIV DARKNESS AND CONFUSION
- CHAPTER XV THE LAST DREAM
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