The burning secret E-Book

Zweig Stefan

• Herausgeber: Passerino Editore
• Kategorie: Gesellschafts- und Liebesromane
• Sprache: Englisch

Veröffentlichungsjahr: 2016

Beschreibung

"The Burning Secret" is a short story about an American diplomat's son who befriends a mysterious baron while staying at an Austrian spa during the 1920s. Stefan Zweig (November 28, 1881 in Vienna – February 22, 1942 in Petrópolis) was an Austrian novelist, playwright, journalist and biographer.

Leseprobe

The Sky is the limit

ISBN: 9788893450751

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Table of contents

THE BURNING SECRET

CHAPTER I - THE PARTNER

CHAPTER II - QUICK FRIENDSHIP

CHAPTER III - THE TRIO

CHAPTER IV - THE ATTACK

CHAPTER V - THE ELEPHANTS

CHAPTER VI - SKIRMISHING

CHAPTER VII - THE BURNING SECRET

CHAPTER VIII - SILENT HOSTILITY

CHAPTER IX - THE LIARS

CHAPTER X - ON THE TRAIL

CHAPTER XI - THE SURPRISE ATTACK

CHAPTER XII - THE TEMPEST

CHAPTER XIII - DAWNING PERCEPTION

CHAPTER XIV - DARKNESS AND CONFUSION

CHAPTER XV - THE LAST DREAM

THE BURNING SECRET

THE

BURNING SECRET

By

STEFAN ZWEIG

(1911)

CHAPTER I - THE PARTNER

THE train, with a shrill whistle, pulled into Summering. For a moment the black coaches stood still in the silvery light of the uplands to eject a few vivid human figures and to swallow up others. Exacerbated voices called back and forth; then, with a puffing and a chugging and another shrill shriek, the dark train clattered into the opening of the tunnel, and once more the landscape stretched before the view unbroken in all its wide expanse, the background swept clean by the moist wind.