The Secret Garden
by Frances Hodgson Burnett
Frances Hodgson Burnett's 1911 classic. Orphaned Mary comes to a lonely Yorkshire manor and, with a hidden garden and two new friends, everything slowly comes back to life.
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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…Frances Hodgson Burnett, The Secret GardenStart reading The Secret Garden free →
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Warm and gentle, mostly simple English with a little Yorkshire dialect. A comforting B1 read.
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