ARGONAUT BOOKS

'Burning Secret' is set in an Austrian sanatorium in the 1920s where a lonely 12-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. Reviews "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 a...Read More