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A stunning new edition of a darkly "touching and delightful" tale of seduction, jealousy, and betrayal from the master of the novella ( The New York Times ) Bored on holiday at an Austrian mountain resort, the suave Baron takes a fancy to twelve-year-old Edgar's mother. But when... Read Full Overview

Burning Secret (Brennendes Geheimnis) is a darkly compelling coming-of-age story-a tale of seduction, jealousy and betrayal from the master of the novella, Stefan ZweigA suave baron takes a fancy to twelve-year-old Edgar's mother, while the three are holidaying in an Austrian... Read Full Overview

This well known novella by Stefan Zweig was made into a film in 1933 directed by Robert Siodmak and remade in 1988 by Director Andrew Birkin. Stefan Zweig was an Austrian novelist, playwright, journalist and biographer. In the 1920s and 1930s, he was at the height of his literary... Read Full Overview

Brennendes Geheimnis - Erz hlung ist ein unver nderter, hochwertiger Nachdruck der Originalausgabe. Hansebooks ist Herausgeber von Literatur zu unterschiedlichen Themengebieten wie Forschung und Wissenschaft, Reisen und Expeditionen, Kochen und Ern hrung, Medizin und weiteren... Read Full Overview

He was at that decisive age in which a woman begins to regret the fact of having remained faithful to a husband whom she has never wanted after all, and in which the purple twilight of her beauty grants her one last and urgent choice between maternal and feminine. Life, to which... Read Full Overview

"Brennendes Geheimnis" from Stefan Zweig. osterreichischen Schriftsteller, Journalist und Biograf (1881-1942)."

The Burning Secret is a novella by an Austrian novelist, poet, playwright and journalist Stefan Zweig.This book describes worries of a growing-up boy. His thoughts that one should be cautious and thoughtful towards other children, that the lies which adults say to children are... Read Full Overview

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,... Read Full Overview