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The Burning Secret
Stefan Zweig
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The child pondered and looked up for an instant as if to find out whether the stranger was to be trusted on such slight acquaintance.
“No,” he finally answered cautiously, “she’s not strict, and since I’ve been sick she lets me do anything I want. Maybe she’ll even let me keep a dog.”
“Shall I ask her?”
“Oh, yes, please do,” Edgar cried delightedly. “If you do I’m sure she’ll give in. What does he look like? White ears, you said? Can he do any tricks yet?”
“Yes, all sorts of tricks.” The baron had to smile at the sparkle of Edgar’s eyes. It had been so easy to kindle that light in them.
All at once the child’s constraint dropped away, and all his emotionalism, kept in check till then by fear, bubbled over. In a flash the shy, intimidated child of a minute before turned into a boister. . . Read More
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جميلة، تُلخّص عالَم الطّفل عندما ينتقل من الطّفولة إلى الرّشد، ويبدأ يفهم طبيعة الأمور الّتي تجري بين الكِبار، كما تلخّص حاجة الإنسان إلى أنْ يكون محبوبًا، وقد أنقذ أمّه من انجِرارها خلف البارون وإغوائه لَها، عندما كانا (الأمّ والطّفل) في فترة نقاهة في أحد الفنادق، وأمام أبيه عندما سأله لماذا هربتَ
An attractive, young married woman takes her 12-year old boy to a summer resort in Austria to improve his health. A cosmopolitan “baron” hits on her. She’s probably never really loved her husband so she is tempted. But that romance is not the approach that the author takes to the story.
Instead he f
Burning Secret is a subtle coming-of-age story of a rare psychological insight.
Edgar is a naive twelve-year old boy and the adult world is a mystery to him…
A line was dug into his brow, the slight twelve-year-old looked almost old as he sat there brooding, without sparing a glance for the landscape