The Secret Garden
Two unpleasant children and a walled garden that nobody has watered in ten years. All three recover together.
- Listening time
- about 8 h 42 min
- Length
- 80,515 words
- First published
- 1911
- Public domain
- the author died in 1924
- Edition
- Edition and cover by Standard Ebooks, released CC0
- Download in the app
- 446 KB stored on your device
- Language
- English
- Shelf
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How it begins.
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.
The Secret Garden · Frances Hodgson Burnett · 1911
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