Naila Karim★ Scout · Lv 6
todayComfort reading of the highest order. The garden coming back to life still moves me.
Children's
The Secret Garden
4.4· 546 ratings
Published 1911256 pagesEnglishTender · Restorative
If you look the right way, you can see that the whole world is a garden.
Why read it
A sour, sickly orphan is sent to a lonely Yorkshire manor full of locked rooms and cries in the night. When she discovers a walled garden that has been sealed for ten years, she begins to bring it, and herself, back to life.
The premise
The Secret Garden follows Mary Lennox as she restores a hidden garden and, in doing so, heals herself and a bedridden boy hidden away in the great house. Frances Hodgson Burnett writes a quietly magical story about the restorative power of nature, friendship, and belief. It is a classic about growth in every sense of the word.
The story behind it
Frances Hodgson Burnett published The Secret Garden in 1911, drawing on her own love of gardening at her English home. Initially less celebrated than her earlier books, it grew over the twentieth century into her most enduring and beloved work. It has inspired numerous film, television, and stage adaptations.
What awaits inside
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Nature that heals
The garden's revival mirrors the physical and emotional healing of the children who tend it.
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Transformation of character
Watch a spoiled, unloved girl grow into someone generous, curious, and alive.
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The power of belief
The story's gentle magic lies in how expectation and positive thinking shape health and spirit.
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Friendship and belonging
Bonds with a nurturing local family draw the lonely children out of isolation.
From the book
Mary following the robin and finding the key, then the hidden door, that lets her into the long-locked secret garden.
Mary discovering her cousin Colin, the hidden invalid boy who believes he is dying, and coaxing him out into the reviving garden.
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