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  Burning Secret (Paperback) By (author) Stefan Zweig

  

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  Short Description for Burning SecretA lonely twelve-year-old is befriended and is infatuated by a suave, mysterious baron. When his adored friend heartlessly brushes him aside and turns his seductive attentions to his mother, the boy's jealousy and feelings of betrayal become uncontrollable. This title is set in an Austrian sanatorium in the 1920s.
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  • Publisher: PUSHKIN PRESS
  • Published: 01 April 2009
  • Format: Paperback 100 pages
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  • Categories: Contemporary Fiction | Classics | Fiction In Translation
  • ISBN 13: 9781901285857 ISBN 10: 1901285855
  • Sales rank: 207,847

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Full description for Burning Secret

• 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.