Download or read book Burning Secret written by Stefan Zweig and published by Pushkin Press. This book was released on 2008-03-25 with total page 128 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A suave baron 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.