The Secret Garden
A Middle Grade, Juvenile, Childrens book. Oh, how she did love that queer, common boy! Frances Hodgson...
'"People never like me and I never like people," Mary thought.'When Mary Lennox is sent to Misselthwaite Manor to live with her uncle everybody says she is the most disagreeable-looking child ever seen. It is true, too. Mary is pale, spoilt and quite contrary. But she is also horribly lonely. Then one day she hears about a garden in the grounds of the Manor that has been kept locked and hidden for years. And when a friendly robin helps Mary find the key, she discovers the most magical place anyone could imagine...
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- Filetype: PDF
- Pages: 378 pages
- ISBN: 9780099572954 / 99572958
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Nothing in the world is quite as adorably lovely as a robin when he shows off and they are nearly always doing it. Frances Hodgson Burnett, The Secret Garden // Where you tend a rose my lad, a thistle cannot grow. Frances Hodgson Burnett, The Secret Garden // Oh, how she did love that queer, common boy! Frances Hodgson Burnett, The Secret Garden //
1 star for a classic?What a scandal.Well, it is the first classic that I'm giving 1 star for so its fairly a big deal.Although I did not finish this, I already know how the book wraps up. (view spoiler)[Take a guess. Bratty kid. Mean uncle. Sick kid. (hide spoiler)] Here's the thing: Classics deal with universal ideas. The Secret Garden... The Secret Garden is a "lovely" story in every sense of the word. Primarily, it's about three kids: Mistress Mary, Dickon, and Master Colin--and how just thinking a little differently can change a person completely.There's a lot of subtle things Frances Hodgson Burnett does right: The way she relates the Garden to Colin's mother and... I first read this wonderful and evocative absolute and utter gem of a story at around age twelve or thirteen (it was likely one of the first longer novels I read entirely in English, not counting those books read for school). I simply adored Frances Hodgson Burnett's The Secret Garden when I read it as a young teenager (or rather, a...
