The Secret Garden
By Frances Hodgson Burnett
- Release Date: 2016-09-28
- Genre: Fiction & Literature
Description
Mary’s parents fall ill and die, forcing her to be transplanted from India to the English countryside. She arrives at a strange and foreign country manor, where she discovers a long-neglected garden and hears strange sobbing noises at night.
Thus begins The Secret Garden, a children’s book with an unusually dense collection of themes, symbols, and motifs. Mary’s personal development mirrors her unraveling the secret of the hidden garden, and a subtle backdrop of magical realism adds a mysterious air to the proceedings.
Contemporary reception left The Secret Garden largely unnoticed, eclipsed by Hodgson’s other work, Little Lord Fauntleroy. Since then, however, the book’s reputation has steadily grown, with modern critics considering it one of the finest children’s books of the 20th century.
Reviews
Better to read for a class
5By better to read for a classAmazing! I love classic books and this one is the best one yet!!It’s a classic
5By BmtkidReread the book again and it’s still filled with magic. 5 starsThe Secret Garden
5By Tumbler6teenI love how I can make a picture in my head and it just tells a great story. I really love it and I think you will tooA better story for an adult
5By mugsfrannyI hadn’t read The Secret Garden in many years but felt a need to do so now as an elderly woman. It is still a marvelous story no matter one’s age.read it. Seriously click “get”. READ IT
5By Silly GooseツI LOVE THIS AND IM NOT EVEN DONE READ IT NOW ITS SO DARN GOODWhat I like
5By soph23498I like everything about this book it is so awesome it makes me feel so happy and I like doing things like gardening and just doing stuff outside make me feel so happyI wish it didn’t end!
5By AdvilHeadacheIt was such a good read, and I wished it would never end. Sadly, though, all stories must end. I finished quickly, and wish I could have read slower. It’s a great book! I suggest reading it greatly!Amazing
5By spycat638This book is one of the best books I have read in years! I don’t read often, but this blew my expectations.I love this novel!
5By jkolmen50266I loved reading it as a young girl and I’m just as enchanted by rereading it now.Good read
4By Kendyl-AnneI was pleasantly surprised how much I loved this children’s book. It really does show that it’s mind over matter, being out in the sun, good work in the garden makes you happy.The Secret Garden
5By BellaOfTheShireWhen cholera takes Mary’s family in India, she is sent to live with her only remaining relative in England. Archibald Craven doesn’t know anything about caring for a bereaved young girl. Even his servants aren’t sure what to do with the sour creature. Soon the secrets of her new home intrigue her. And the wind coming off the moors begins to work a magic that just might change her and all others who find their way to the secret garden… I first read this book back when I was a tweenager (11, 12, or 13) and vaguely remembered it being both sad and sweet. This might be why I never watched the movie. Sometimes they leave out characters that are essential (like Tom Bombadil) or change details that really annoy me (still mad about “Where the Red Fern Grows” decades later—spoilers beg me to elaborate but I hate spoilers). Not sure how one could ruin the ending of this particular book, but I still don’t think I should risk it.
