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 an orphan, Mary is sent to
England to live with her reclusive uncle, Archibald Craven, at
Misselthwaite Manor. Unloved and unloving, Mary sanders the
desolate moors until one day she chanced 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 Dickon secretly
strive to make the garden bloom once more.
Author Frances Hodgson Burnett
