The Secret Garden

Author: Frances Hodgson Burnett
Publisher: OUP Oxford
ISBN: 9780192727992
Category : Juvenile Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 0

Book Description
If you love a good story, then look no further. Oxford Children's Classics bring together the most unforgettable stories ever told. They're books to treasure and return to again and again. After the death of her parents, Mary Lennox is sent to her uncle's house on the Yorkshire Moors. But the house is an unhappy one. A tragedy happened there years before, and Mary's uncle has never recovered. Miserable and lonely, Mary starts to explore the house's gardens. There, led by a mischievous robin, she discovers a secret so important, so enchanting, that it will change her life completely...

Oxford Children's Classics: The Secret Garden

Author: Frances Hodgson Burnett
Publisher: Oxford University Press - Children
ISBN: 019278935X
Category : Juvenile Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 356

Book Description
This Oxford Children's Classic features the complete unabridged text, an introduction by Geraldine McCaughrean, and other bonus material including insights for readers, facts, activities, and more . . . After her parents' death, Mary Lennox travels to England to live at her uncle's house in Yorkshire. Sour-tempered and selfish, she is unimpressed at what she finds there. Yet she can't help being intrigued by stories of a secret garden-once full of beauty, now hidden in a tangle of neglect.

Frances Hodgson Burnett's The Secret Garden

Author: Jackie C. Horne
Publisher: Scarecrow Press
ISBN: 0810881888
Category : Literary Criticism
Languages : en
Pages : 314

Book Description
Frances Hodgson Burnett gained famed not only as an author of social fictions and romances but also for writing the immensely popular children's novel Little Lord Fauntleroy. She seemed an unlikely candidate to pen a quiet, realistic, and unsentimental paean to disagreeable children and the natural world, which has the power to heal them. But it is precisely these qualities that have garnered The Secret Garden both a continued audience and a central place in the canon of children's literature for a century. In Frances Hodgson Burnett's The Secret Garden: A Children's Classic at 100, some of the most respected scholars of children's literature consider Burnett's seminal work from modern critical perspectives. Contributors examine the works and authors that influenced Burnett, identify authors who have drawn on The Secret Garden in their writing, and situate the novel in historical and theoretical contexts. These essays push beyond the themes that have tended to occupy the majority of academic scholars who have written about The Secret Garden to date. In doing so, they approach the text from theoretical perspectives that allow new light to illuminate old debates. Scholars and students of children's literature, women's literature, transcontinental literature, and the Victorian/Edwardian period will find in this collection refreshing new looks at a children's classic.

The Audubon Reader

Author: John James Audubon
Publisher: Everyman's Library
ISBN: 0375712704
Category : Nature
Languages : en
Pages : 666

Book Description
This unprecedented anthology of John James Audubon’s lively and colorful writings about the American wilderness reintroduces the great artist and ornithologist as an exceptional American writer, a predecessor to Thoreau, Emerson, and Melville. Audubon’s award-winning biographer, Richard Rhodes, has gathered excerpts from his journals, letters, and published works, and has organized them to appeal to general readers. Rhodes’s unobtrusive commentary frames a wide range of selections, including Audubon’s vivid “bird biographies,” correspondence with his devoted wife, Lucy, journal accounts of dramatic river journeys and hunting trips with the Shawnee and Osage Indians, and a generous sampling of brief narrative episodes that have long been out of print—engaging stories of pioneer life such as "The Great Pine Swamp," “The Earthquake,” and “Kentucky Barbecue on the Fourth of July.” Full-color reproductions of sixteen of Audubon’s stunning watercolor illustrations accompany the text. The Audubon Reader allows us to experience Audubon’s distinctive voice directly and provides a window into his electrifying encounter with early America: with its wildlife and birds, its people, and its primordial wilderness.

The Secret Garden

Author: Frances Hodgson Burnett
Publisher: Xist Publishing
ISBN: 1532405014
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 247

Book Description
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The Secret Garden

Author: Frances Hodgson Burnett
Publisher: Penguin Classics
ISBN: 9780142437056
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 258

Book Description
Ten-year-old Mary comes to live in a lonely house on the Yorkshire moors and discovers an invalid cousin and the mysteries of a locked garden.

The Secret Garden

Author: Frances Hodgson Burnett
Publisher: Oxford University
ISBN: 9780194230148
Category : Juvenile Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 72

Book Description
Ten-year-old Mary comes to live in a lonely house on the Yorkshire moors and discovers an invalid cousin and the mysteries of a locked garden.

The Secret Garden

Author: Frances Hodgson Burnett
Publisher: Oxford University Press, USA
ISBN: 9780199549863
Category : Children's stories
Languages : en
Pages : 0

Book Description
After the death of her parents, the neglected and spoiled Mary Lennox is sent to her uncle's large and lonely house on the Yorkshire Moors. There she discovers a secret garden and with the help of her strange, animal-charming friend Dickon, not only restored the garden but in the processtransforms herself from a sullen, unhappy child to an unselfish, happy one, and helps to cure her sick cousin and to rehabilitate his gloomy, grief-stricken father.Frances Hodgson Burnett's passionate belief in the redemptive forces of renewal is shown nowhere more clearly than in The Secret Garden, her most sensitive and popular children's novel. First published in 1911, it lies in the best tradition of the family story developed by such writers as E. Nesbitin Britain and Louisa M. Alcott and Susan Coolidge in America.

The Secret Garden - Illustrated by Charles Robinson

Author: Frances Hodgson Burnett
Publisher: Read Books Ltd
ISBN: 1528782720
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 306

Book Description
The timeless tale of a young, sickly girl who is forced to live with her uncle after tragedy strikes her life. Alone, angry, and confused, the only thing that brings Mary Lennox a glimmer of hope is the story of a mysterious secret garden. Mary Lennox is an orphaned girl with a cold heart and a sour tongue. Accustomed to a privileged life in India, Mary isn’t prepared for the move to her uncle’s grand house on the Yorkshire Moors. But as time goes by, she becomes used to her new surroundings and begins to discover secrets are lurking around every corner. One day, she discovers a secret garden with high walls and a locked gate. Could the garden be the key to softening little Mary’s heart? This gorgeous edition of Frances Hodgson Burnett's children’s novel The Secret Garden is accompanied by Charles Robinson's beautiful illustrations, and was first published in 1912.

The Secret Garden

Author: Frances Hodgson Burnett
Publisher: Collector's Library
ISBN: 9781904633310
Category : Children with disabilities
Languages : en
Pages : 300

Book Description
.0000000000Mary Lennox is sent from an India as an orphan to live at Misselthwaite Manor. She arrives as a sour-faced, sickly and ill-tempered little madam but becomes friends with local lad Dickon and her poorly cousin Colin. In their restoration of a secret garden all their lives are changed for the better.With an Afterword by Anna South.