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The Secret Garden (Collins Classics)
By (Author) Frances Hodgson Burnett
HarperCollins Publishers
William Collins
1st September 2010
1st April 2010
United Kingdom
Children
Fiction
813.4
Paperback
288
Width 111mm, Height 178mm, Spine 18mm
160g
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'Where, you tend a rose, my lad, A thistle cannot grow.'
Orphaned and sent to live with her uncle in his austere manor on the moors, Mary Lennox is a lonely and unhappy child. A meeting with Dickon, her servant's brother begins her adventure and it is through their friendship and her relationship with her troubled hypochondriac cousin Colin that she begins to learn about herself. Their lives all begin to change when a Robin shows Mary the door to a mysterious secret garden.
Frances Hodgson Burnett was a born storyteller. Even as a young child, her greatest pleasure was in making up stories and acting them out, using her dolls as characters. She wrote over forty books, including the classic A Little Princess , also illustrated by Tasha Tudor.