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The Secret Garden: By Frances Hodgson Burnett Illustrated + FREE Alice's Adventures In Wonderland

Frances Hodgson Burnett, The Secret Garden

The Secret Garden: By Frances Hodgson Burnett Illustrated + FREE Alice's Adventures In Wonderland

eBook (Top 100 Classics March 7, 2016)
‘The Secret Garden' by Frances Hodgson Burnett

The Secret Garden is a novel by Frances Hodgson Burnett. It 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. Mary Lennox is a very troubled, sickly, and unloved 10-year-old girl who was born in India to selfish, wealthy British parents who never wanted her and were too wrapped up in their own lives to love or care about her. Mrs. Craven fell to her death when she sat on a tree branch that broke under her weight, and Mr. Craven had the garden locked and the key buried. Mary is roused by this story and starts to soften her ill manner despite herself. Soon, she begins to lose her disposition and gradually comes to enjoy the company of Martha, Ben Weatherstaff the gardener

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