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Frances Hodgson Burnett: The secret garden (1993, Knopf)

318 pages

English language

Published Aug. 6, 1993 by Knopf.

ISBN:
978-0-679-42309-6
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OCLC Number:
27431766

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4 stars (4 reviews)

Ten-year-old Mary comes to live in a lonely house on the Yorkshire moors and discovers an invalid cousin and the mysteries of a locked garden.

97 editions

Started out good and then just went flat

2 stars

So, only after reading the whole thing did I learn that this is supposed to be a kid's book, but like...I dunno. It kinda sucks? The prose is very good, to the point where the first half of the book is excellent, but then everyone's problems are solved by the magical powers of the outdoors and positive thinking and then the book ends.

Subjects

  • Orphans -- Fiction
  • Gardens -- Fiction
  • People with disabilities -- Fiction
  • Yorkshire (England) -- Fiction