The Secret Garden

by Frances Hodgson Burnett

Overview

The Secret Garden opens by introducing us to Mary Lennox, a sickly, foul-tempered, unsightly little girl who loves no one and whom no one loves. At the outset of the story, she is living in India with her parents—a dashing army captain and his frivolous, beautiful wife—but is rarely permitted to see them. They have placed her under the constant care of a number of native servants, as they find her too hideous and tiresome to look after. Mary's circumstances are cast into complete upheaval when an outbreak of cholera devastates the Lennox household, leaving no one alive but herself. When Mary Lennox is orphaned she has to move to Yorkshire, England, to live with her uncle in Misselthwaite Manor. Here she is treated much differently than she was in India - she is able to make friends with children her own age, one of these being her sickly cousin, Colin Craven.

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Product Details

ISBN-13:	9781448155194
Publisher:	Random House
Publication date:	08/02/2012
Sold by:	Barnes & Noble
Format:	eBook
Pages:	384
File size:	2 MB
Age Range:	9 - 11 Years

About the Author

FRANCES HODGSON BURNETT was born in Manchester in 1849. After living in poverty, she emigrated to the US in 1865. She wrote over forty books; the best-known today are The Secret Garden, A Little Princess and Little Lord Fauntleroy. She died in 1924.

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 • "The Secret Garden should be on every child's bookshelf." —The Times

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 • "The Secret Garden should be on every child's bookshelf." —The Times

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