The Secret Garden
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Little Mary Lennox, raised in India by servants and left alone in the world after a cholera epidemic, is sent to live with an uncle she has never met in a nearly empty mansion on the edge of the Yorkshire moors.
Little Mary Lennox, raised in India by servants and left alone in the world after a cholera epidemic, is sent to live with an uncle she has never met in a nearly empty mansion on the edge of the Yorkshire moors.
Spoiled and self-absorbed, Mary soon finds that the mansion is not so empty as it seems at first and gradually learns that world does not revolve around her, and is filled with wonderful living things and people who can become friends.
The Secret Garden, by Frances Hodgson Burnett,was initially published in serial format starting in the autumn of 1910, and was first published in its entirety in 1911.
It is now one of Burnett’s most popular novels, and is considered to be a classic of English children’s literature.