{"product_id":"the-burning-secret-paperback-3","title":"The Burning Secret - Paperback","description":"\u003cdiv\u003e\u003cp style=\"text-align: right;\"\u003e\u003ca href=\"https:\/\/reportcopyrightinfringement.com\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow\"\u003e\u003cb\u003eReport copyright infringement\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/a\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003c\/div\u003e\u003cp\u003eby \u003cb\u003eStefan Zweig\u003c\/b\u003e (Author)\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003e\"Breathtaking ... unlike anything I have ever read before\" - \u003cem\u003eThe Guardian\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cem\u003eThe Burning Secret\u003c\/em\u003e is a darkly compelling coming-of-age story - a tale of seduction, jealousy and betrayal from the master of the novella, Stefan Zweig.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eA suave baron, bored on holiday, takes a fancy to twelve-year-old Edgar's mother, while the three are holidaying in an Austrian mountain resort. His initial advances rejected, the baron befriends Edgar in order to get closer to the woman he desires. The initially unsuspecting child soon senses something is amiss, but has no idea of the burning secret that is driving the affair, and that will soon change his life for ever.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eZweig - whose life and work inspired Wes Anderson's \u003cem\u003eThe Grand Budapest Hotel - \u003c\/em\u003ewas a wildly popular writer of compelling short fiction. His books will stay with the reader for ever. \u003cem\u003eThe Burning Secret\u003c\/em\u003e is a witty, potent look at innocence, adult attraction and childhood passion.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e'Zweig's time of oblivion is over for good ... it's good to have him back ' - \u003cem\u003eThe New York Times\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cem\u003e\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eAbout the author\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eStefan Zweig (1881-1942) was an Austrian novelist, poet, playwright and biographer. Born into an Austrian--Jewish family in 1881, he became a leading figure in Vienna's cultural world and was famed for his gripping novellas and biographies. At the height of his literary career, in the 1920s and 1930s, he was one of the most popular writers in the world: extremely popular in the United States, South America and Europe - he remains so in continental Europe - however, he was largely ignored by the British public.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eZweig is best known for his novellas (notably \u003cem\u003eThe Burning Secret\u003c\/em\u003e, \u003cem\u003eThe Royal Game\u003c\/em\u003e, \u003cem\u003eAmok\u003c\/em\u003e, and \u003cem\u003eLetter from an Unknown Woman\u003c\/em\u003e; novels (\u003cem\u003eBeware of Pity\u003c\/em\u003e, \u003cem\u003eConfusion\u003c\/em\u003e, and the post-humously published \u003cem\u003eThe Post Office Girl\u003c\/em\u003e); and his vivid psychological biographical essays on famous writers and thinkers such as Erasmus, Tolstoy, Balzac, Stendhal, Nietzsche, Dostoevsky, Dickens, Freud and Mesmer.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eIn 1934, with the rise of Nazism, Zweig fled from Salzburg to London, then to New York, and finally to Brazil. Zweig's memoir, \u003cem\u003eThe World of Yesterday, \u003c\/em\u003e was completed in 1942, one day before Zweig and his second wife were found dead, following an apparent double suicide. \u003c\/p\u003e\n            \u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eNumber of Pages:\u003c\/strong\u003e 100\u003c\/div\u003e\n            \u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eDimensions:\u003c\/strong\u003e 0.24 x 7.81 x 5.06 IN\u003c\/div\u003e\n            \u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003ePublication Date:\u003c\/strong\u003e October 22, 2020\u003c\/div\u003e\n            ","brand":"Books by splitShops","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":42743960338495,"sku":"9781922491183","price":17.26,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0105\/8226\/1823\/files\/9ffa2849e5e112e851ac62f6ab238887.webp?v=1765166565","url":"https:\/\/dhlswag.com\/products\/the-burning-secret-paperback-3","provider":"BBB","version":"1.0","type":"link"}