New to this Edition:
'It was the garden that did it - and Mary and Dickon and the creatures - and the Magic.'
An orphaned girl, a grim moorland manor with hundreds of empty rooms, strange cries in the night, a walled garden, with its door locked and the key buried - and a boy who talks to animals. These are the ingredients of one of the most famous and well-loved of children's classics. Through her discovery of the secret garden, Mary Lennox is gradually transformed from a spoilt and unhappy child into a healthy, unselfish girl who in turn redeems her neglected cousin and his gloomy, Byronic father. Frances Hodgson Burnett's inspiring story of regeneration and salvation gently subverted the conventions of a century of romantic and gothic fiction for girls.
After a hundred years, The Secret Garden's critique of empire and of attitudes to childhood and gender, and its advocacy of a holistic approach to health remains remarkably contemporary and relevant.
REVIEW:
"a jolly good, heart-warming classic." - The Daily Mail
Introduction
Note on the Text
Select Bibliography
A Chronology of Frances Hodgson Burnett
THE SECRET GARDEN
Appendix: 'My Robin'
Note on the Date of the Story
Explanatory Notes
ISBN : 9780199588220
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