Frances burnett the secret garden

By Gretchen H.

Celebrate an unforgettable classic with this paperback edition featuring the timeless art of Tasha Tudor. Just in time for the movie adaptation starring Colin Firth and Julie Walters! When orphaned Mary Lennox comes to live at her uncle's great house on the Yorkshire Moors, she finds it full of secrets. The mansion has nearly one hundred rooms, and her uncle keeps himself locked up. And at night, she hears the sound of crying down one of the long corridors. The gardens surrounding the large property are Mary's only escape.

Frances burnett the secret garden

When Mary Lennox was sent to Misselthwaite Manor to live with her uncle everybody said she was the most disagreeable-looking child ever seen. It was true, too. She had a little thin face and a little thin body, thin light hair and a sour expression. Her hair was yellow, and her face was yellow because she had been born in India and had always been ill in one way or another. Her father had held a position under the English Government and had always been busy and ill himself, and her mother had been a great beauty who cared only to go to parties and amuse herself with gay people. She had not wanted a little girl at all, and when Mary was born she handed her over to the care of an Ayah, who was made to understand that if she wished to please the Mem Sahib she must keep the child out of sight as much as possible. So when she was a sickly, fretful, ugly little baby she was [Pg 2] kept out of the way, and when she became a sickly, fretful, toddling thing she was kept out of the way also. She never remembered seeing familiarly anything but the dark faces of her Ayah and the other native servants, and as they always obeyed her and gave her her own way in everything, because the Mem Sahib would be angry if she was disturbed by her crying, by the time she was six years old she was as tyrannical and selfish a little pig as ever lived. The young English governess who came to teach her to read and write disliked her so much that she gave up her place in three months, and when other governesses came to try to fill it they always went away in a shorter time than the first one. So if Mary had not chosen to really want to know how to read books she would never have learned her letters at all. One frightfully hot morning, when she was about nine years old, she awakened feeling very cross, and she became crosser still when she saw that the servant who stood by her bedside was not her Ayah. Send my Ayah to me. The woman looked frightened, but she only stammered that the Ayah could not come and when Mary threw herself into a passion and beat [Pg 3] and kicked her, she looked only more frightened and repeated that it was not possible for the Ayah to come to Missie Sahib. There was something mysterious in the air that morning.

Think of the servants running away and leaving her all alone in that deserted bungalow. He'll be at it again to-day.

Jump to ratings and reviews. Want to read. Rate this book. The Secret Garden. Frances Hodgson Burnett. In a house full of sadness and secrets, can young, orphaned Mary find happiness?

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Frances burnett the secret garden

Jump to ratings and reviews. Want to read. Rate this book. The Secret Garden. Frances Hodgson Burnett. In a house full of sadness and secrets, can young, orphaned Mary find happiness? There she meets a hearty housekeeper and her spirited brother, a dour gardener, a cheerful robin, and her wilful, hysterical, and sickly cousin, Master Colin, whose wails she hears echoing through the house at night. With the help of the robin, Mary finds the door to a secret garden, neglected and hidden for years. When she decides to restore the garden in secret, the story becomes a charming journey into the places of the heart, where faith restores health, flowers refresh the spirit, and the magic of the garden, coming to life anew, brings health to Colin and happiness to Mary. Loading interface

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The heavy Yorkshire accents of certain characters can be tricky at times, but I managed anyhow. They were large and scared and lifted imploringly to the fair boy officer's face. I just wasn't really impressed. The biggest ones goes out in th' cow-shed and plays there. I really enjoyed the author's descriptive accounts of the garden and the Yorkshire moorland. Dickon's got a whole lot of 'em planted in our bit o' garden. If tha' could print we could write a letter to him an' ask him to go an' buy th' garden tools an' th' seeds at th' same time. Just see how he's watchin' thee," jerking his head toward the robin. But she had always had a very small appetite, and she looked with something more than indifference at the first plate Martha set before her. But when you're in the house don't go wandering and poking about. They'll poke up a bit higher here, an' push out a spike more there, an' uncurl a leaf this day an' another that. Lexile measure. A table in the center was set with a good substantial breakfast. Mary alternately cried and slept through the hours. It was while she was standing here and just after she had said this that the stillness was broken by a sound.

Set in England, it is one of Burnett's most popular novels and is seen as a classic of English children's literature. Several stage and film adaptations have been made of The Secret Garden. The American edition was published by the Frederick A.

There's a lot of subtle things Frances Hodgson Burnett does right: The way she relates the Garden to Colin's mother and how that affects his relationship with his father--and how all of these things have made him a horribly spoiled brat. This will be a perfect Christmas gift for her! In The Secret Garden, it is the poor, but well-raised and deeply loved local boy who shows the spoiled, unhappy upper class children how to take on a responsible role for their life, and how to make active and positive decisions rather than throwing fits to let others step in and take over. Let Us Help You. Beautiful, Heart Warming story. That thinking a little differently, and getting some fresh air, and fixing up a Secret Garden can simultaneously fix up his life and his relationship with his father. How customer reviews and ratings work Customer Reviews, including Product Star Ratings help customers to learn more about the product and decide whether it is the right product for them. He turned about to the orchard side of his garden and began to whistle—a low soft whistle. It goes off in a night like it was pretendin' it had never been here an' never [Pg 76] meant to come again. She was not very clever at it, but she liked it so much that she did not want to stop.