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The Secret Garden

by Frances Hodgson Burnett

Spoiled, orphaned Mary is sent to live at a Yorkshire manor.

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Original language: EnglishLevel: Intermediate3,062 characters · ≈ 5 minSource: Project Gutenberg

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When Mary Lennox was sent to Misselthwaite Manor to live with her uncle everybody said she was the most disagreeable-looking child ever seen. It was true, too. She had a little thin face and a little thin body, thin light hair and a sour expression. Her hair was yellow, and her face was yellow because she had been born in India and had always been ill in one way or another. Her father had held a position under the English Government and had always been busy and ill himself, and her mother had been a great beauty who cared only to go to parties and amuse herself with gay people. She had not wanted a little girl at all, and when Mary was born she handed her over to the care of an Ayah, who…

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The Secret Garden is a children's novel by Frances Hodgson Burnett, set in England and considered a classic of English children's literature. The story follows Mary, a wilful orphan girl sent to a manor in Yorkshire. Several stage and film adaptations have been made of the work.

About the author

Frances Hodgson Burnett (24 November 1849 – 29 October 1924) was an English-American novelist and playwright. She is best known for the three children's novels Little Lord Fauntleroy (1886), A Little Princess (1905), and The Secret Garden (1911).

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