The Secret Garden
Originally published in 1911
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Language: English27 chapters
Source: Project GutenbergIdentifier: 113
Synopsis
The Secret Garden is a novel by Frances Hodgson Burnett, serialized in The American Magazine from 1910 to 1911 and published as a book in 1911. Mary Lennox is a sickly, spoiled ten-year-old born in British India. When a cholera epidemic kills her parents, she is sent to live with her uncle, Archibald Craven, at Misselthwaite Manor on the Yorkshire moors. There she hears of a walled garden that her uncle locked, burying the key, after his wife's death, and a robin helps her find it. With Martha, the maid, her brother Dickon, who knows the ways of the moors, and the mysterious Colin, Mary discovers that the garden can come back to life. Renewal and healing are its great themes. A bestseller in its day, it is now part of the canon of children's literature.
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01CHAPTER I. THERE IS NO ONE LEFT02CHAPTER II. MISTRESS MARY QUITE CONTRARY03CHAPTER III. ACROSS THE MOOR04CHAPTER IV. MARTHA05CHAPTER V. THE CRY IN THE CORRIDOR06CHAPTER VI. “THERE WAS SOMEONE CRYING—THERE WAS!”07CHAPTER VII. THE KEY TO THE GARDEN08CHAPTER VIII. THE ROBIN WHO SHOWED THE WAY09CHAPTER IX. THE STRANGEST HOUSE ANYONE EVER LIVED IN10CHAPTER X. DICKON11CHAPTER XI. THE NEST OF THE MISSEL THRUSH12CHAPTER XII. “MIGHT I HAVE A BIT OF EARTH?”13CHAPTER XIII. “I AM COLIN”14CHAPTER XIV. A YOUNG RAJAH15CHAPTER XV. NEST BUILDING16CHAPTER XVI. “I WON’T!” SAID MARY17CHAPTER XVII. A TANTRUM18CHAPTER XVIII. “THA’ MUNNOT WASTE NO TIME”19CHAPTER XIX. “IT HAS COME!”20CHAPTER XX. “I SHALL LIVE FOREVER—AND EVER—AND EVER!”21CHAPTER XXI. BEN WEATHERSTAFF22CHAPTER XXII. WHEN THE SUN WENT DOWN23CHAPTER XXIII. MAGIC24CHAPTER XXIV. “LET THEM LAUGH”25CHAPTER XXV. THE CURTAIN26CHAPTER XXVI. “IT’S MOTHER!”27CHAPTER XXVII. IN THE GARDEN