The Secret Garden
A lonely, contrary girl finds a locked garden — and brings it, and herself, back to life.
- Author
- Frances Hodgson Burnett
- First published
- 1911 (serialised 1910–11)
- Length
- About 81,000 words (roughly 290 print pages)
- Formats
- EPUB (DRM-free) · Online reader
- Language
- English (American spelling)
- Edition source
- Standard Ebooks (public-domain dedication, CC0)
About this book
Orphaned and sent to live in her uncle’s vast, gloomy house on the Yorkshire moors, sour little Mary Lennox has nothing to do and no one to talk to — until a robin shows her the way into a garden that has been locked for ten years.
With the help of a boy who can charm animals and a hidden cousin who believes he is dying, Mary sets out to make the garden grow. A gentle, hopeful story about how people, like gardens, can come back to life.
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Credits & licence
Ebook edition: Standard Ebooks, released into the public domain (CC0 1.0). Produced for Standard Ebooks by Alex Cabal and Alina Pyzowski, based on a transcription from Project Gutenberg and digital scans from the HathiTrust Digital Library. Cover: Standard Ebooks design adapted from “Daubigny’s Garden”, a painting completed in 1890 by Vincent van Gogh (public domain). EPUB and web reader edition packaged by Paper Lane Books from the Standard Ebooks source files. Standard Ebooks is not affiliated with Paper Lane Books and does not endorse this shop.
