The Secret Garden

Frances Hodgson Burnett

Dec 2010 · Penguin Random House Audio · Narrated by Finola Hughes

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8 hr 22 min

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Few children's classics can match the charm and originality of Frances Hodgson Burnett's The Secret Garden, the unforgettable story of sullen, sulky Mary Lennox, "the most disagreeable-looking child ever seen." When a cholera epidemic leaves her as an orphan, Mary is sent to England to live with her reclusive uncle, Archibald Craven, at Misselthwaite Manor. Unloved and unloving, Mary wanders the desolate moors until one day she chances upon the door of a secret garden. What follows is one of the most beautiful tales of transformation in children's literature, as Mary her sickly and tyrannical cousin Colin and a peasant boy named Dickson secretly strive to make the garden bloom once more.

A unique blend of realism and magic, The Secret Garden remains a moving expression of every child's need to nurture and be nurtured—a story that has captured for all time the rare and enchanted world of childhood.

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4.5

4 reviews

Maliha harris

October 8, 2018

My teacher wants me to read the secret garden so I am and its reply good

Karishma Varma

June 24, 2019

its a nice novel 😘😍

About the author

Frances Hodgson Burnett (1849– 1924) was born in Manchester, England, but moved to Knoxville, Tennessee, as a teenager. She wrote more than forty books and is most famous for Little Lord Fauntleroy, A Little Princess, and The Secret Garden—the last of which was mostly written during a visit to an English country house where a walled-in rose garden served as her work space.

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