{"product_id":"burning-secret-isbn-9781782274520","title":"Burning Secret","description":"\u003cb\u003eA stunning new edition of a darkly “touching and delightful” tale of seduction, jealousy, and betrayal from the master of the novella (\u003ci\u003eThe New York Times\u003c\/i\u003e)\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e \u003cbr\u003eBored on holiday at an Austrian mountain resort, the suave Baron takes a fancy to twelve-year-old Edgar’s mother. But when his initial advances are rejected, he must turn to other means to carry out his seduction. Instead, he lavishes his attention on Edgar, deploying all of his adult charms and wiles to befriend the boy and get closer to the woman he desires.\u003cbr\u003e \u003cbr\u003eThe initially unsuspecting child soon senses something is amiss, but he has no idea of the burning secret that is driving the affair—and that it will soon change his life forever.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003ePushkin Collection editions feature a spare, elegant series style and superior, durable components. The Collection is typeset in Monotype Baskerville, litho-printed on Munken Premium White Paper and notch-bound by the independently owned printer TJ International in Padstow. The covers, with French flaps, are printed on Colorplan Pristine White Paper. Both paper and cover board are acid-free and Forest Stewardship Council (FSC) certified.“What did Zweig have that brought him the fanatical devotion of millions of readers, the admiration of Herman Hesse, the invitation to give the eulogy at the funeral of Sigmund Freud? To learn that, we would have to have a biography that illuminated \u003ci\u003eall\u003c\/i\u003e aspects of his work, that read \u003ci\u003eall\u003c\/i\u003e of his books, and that challenged, rather than accepted, the apparent modesty of his statements about his life and work.” \u003cb\u003e– Benjamin Moser, \u003ci\u003eBookforum\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e  \u003cbr\u003e “[\u003ci\u003eBurning Secret\u003c\/i\u003e is] a devastatingly accurate picture of childhood on the cusp of adolescent disillusion.” \u003cb\u003e– Gary Indiana, \u003ci\u003eBookforum\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\"Breathtaking... the final sentence is unlike anything I have ever read before; and transforms not only the book, but, in a way, the reader as well.\" - \u003cb\u003eNicholas Lezard, \u003ci\u003eGuardian\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\"Zweig is the most adult of writers; civilised, urbane, but never jaded or cynical; a realist who none the less believed in the possibility—the necessity—of empathy.\" - \u003ci\u003e\u003cb\u003eIndependent\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e \"Touching and delightful. Those adjectives are not meant as faint praise. Zweig may be especially appealing now because rather than being a progenitor of big ideas, he was a serious entertainer, and an ardent and careful observer of habits, foibles, passions and mistakes.\" —\u003cb\u003e A.O. Scott, \u003c\/b\u003e\u003ci\u003e\u003cb\u003e\u003cb\u003e\u003ci\u003eThe New York Times\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003ci\u003e \u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cb\u003eStefan Zweig (1881-1942)\u003c\/b\u003e was born in Vienna, into a wealthy Austrian-Jewish family. He studied in Berlin and Vienna and was first known as a poet and translator, then as a biographer. Zweig travelled widely, living in Salzburg between the wars, and was an international bestseller with a string of hugely popular novellas including \u003ci\u003eLetter from an Unknown Woman\u003c\/i\u003e, \u003ci\u003eAmok\u003c\/i\u003e, and \u003ci\u003eFear\u003c\/i\u003e.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eIn 1934, with the rise of Nazism, he moved to London, where he wrote his only novel, \u003ci\u003eBeware of Pity\u003c\/i\u003e. He later moved on to Bath, taking British citizenship after the outbreak of the Second World War. With the fall of France in 1940 Zweig left Britain for New York, before settling in Brazil, where in 1942 he and his wife were found dead in an apparent double suicide. Much of his work is available from Pushkin Press.","brand":"Pushkin Press","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":46304629850341,"sku":"NP9781782274520","price":6.99,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/1842\/7735\/files\/9781782274520.jpg?v=1767723208","url":"https:\/\/k12savings.com\/products\/burning-secret-isbn-9781782274520","provider":"K12savings","version":"1.0","type":"link"}