Download or read book Burning Secret written by Stefan Zweig and published by Pushkin Press. This book was released on 2008-03-28 with total page 99 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 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.