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  • Published: 26 February 2002
  • ISBN: 9781101660560
  • Imprint: PEN US eBook Adult
  • Format: EBook
  • Pages: 288

The Secret Garden





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Frances Hodgson Burnett's beloved classic tells the story of  Mary Lennox, a spoiled orphan who leaves India to live with her cold uncle in his dreary mansion in England. When Mary hears of a secret garden kept locked for ten years, she is determined to find it and tend it back to life. With the help of her uncle's sickly son and a boy who knows all about nature, Mary secretly transforms the garden - and all of their lives.

  • Published: 26 February 2002
  • ISBN: 9781101660560
  • Imprint: PEN US eBook Adult
  • Format: EBook
  • Pages: 288

About the author

Frances Hodgson Burnett

Frances Hodgson Burnett was born in Manchester in 1849. After living in poverty, she emigrated to the US in 1865. She wrote over forty books; the best-known today are The Secret Garden, A Little Princess and Little Lord Fauntleroy. She died in 1924.

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