The Secret Garden

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Vintage, 2010 - Fiction - 320 pages
"The Secret Garden should be on every child's bookshelf." --Amanda Craig, "The Times
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Mary Lennox is an orphan who is sent to live with her uncle at gloomy Misselthwaite Manor. Neglected and lonely, she begins to explore her new home and learns of a secret garden that her uncle has forbidden anyone to enter. A friendly robin shows Mary the key to the garden and she discovers a world she could never have imagined.
The Secret Garden has enchanted generations of children and adults alike.

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About the author (2010)

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.