The secret garden

Oxford world's classics

by

239 pages

English language

Published Nov. 5, 2011 by Oxford University Press.

ISBN:
9780199588220

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3 stars (2 reviews)

Ten-year-old orphan Mary Lennox is sent to live in a largely uninhabited mansion on the Yorkshire moors and discovers an invalid cousin and the mysteries of a locked garden.

145 editions

reviewed The Secret Garden by Frances Hodgson Burnett

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.

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rated it

4 stars

Subjects

  • Fiction
  • Orphans
  • People with disabilities
  • Gardens
  • History

Places

  • Yorkshire (England)
  • Great Britain