The Secret Garden: A Riveting Classic Novel Healing Powers of Nature Friendship and Kindness a Masterpiece on Transformation and Growth Victorian Era a Timeless Tale of Family and Community Values - Softcover

Frances Hodgson Burnett

Softcover

ISBN 10: 9386538997 ISBN 13: 9789386538994

Publisher: Fingerprint! Publishing, 2018

Synopsis

I am sure there is Magic in everything, only we have not sense enough to get hold of it and make it do things for us. When Mary Lennox, the unloved, contrary, and spoiled ten-year-old, is found alone in the deserted house after her parents death, she is sent to live with an uncle whom she has never known. In Yorkshire, England, at his secluded Misselthwaite Manor, Martha Sowerby, a warm-hearted chambermaid, introduces Mary to the late Mrs. Craven and her private walled garden, which has been locked for years. As Mary becomes curious to explore this secret garden, will she be able to find the key? Published more than a hundred years ago, The Secret Garden by Frances Hodgson Burnett is a prominent childrens classic. It is regarded as one of the best works of the twentieth century childrens literature.

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About the Author:

Born in Cheetham, Manchester, England, Frances Hodgson Burnett (1849-1924) developed her love for reading at a very young age. In 1868, Burnetts first story was published in Godeys Ladys Book. She had begun writing for a livelihood and wrote non-stop. Her stories were being published on a regular basis in Petersons Magazine, Harpers Bazaar, and Scribners Monthly. That Lass o Lowries, her first full-length novel, was published in 1877. She started writing childrens fiction after meeting Louisa May Alcott and Mary Mapes Dodgethe editor of St. Nicholas, a childrens magazine. Many of her short works were published in this magazine. She also wrote and published adult fiction, which included Louisiana (1880), A Fair Barbarian (1881), and Through One Administration (1883). Her play Esmerelda (1881) was nineteenth centurys longest running play on Broadway. Little Lord Fauntleroy (1886) was Burnetts first childrens novel. It established Burnetts reputation as a writer. Burnett published The Secret Garden in 1911. A classic of childrens literature, it became one of her most popular novels. Burnetts other noteworthy works include The Lost Prince (1915), The White People (1917), The Head of the House of Coombe (1922) and its sequel, Robin (1922).

About this edition

• Publisher: Fingerprint! Publishing
• Publication date: 2018
• ISBN 10: 9386538997
• ISBN 13: 9789386538994
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 280