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Fiction · 1911

The Secret Garden

Frances Hodgson Burnett

Reading time
about 6 h
Length
80,819 words · 194 pages in print
Structure
27 chapters
Language
English
Era
Victorian

Mary Lennox, orphaned in India and sent to her uncle’s house on the Yorkshire moors, is sour, sallow and unwanted. She finds a walled garden that has been locked for ten years, a robin, a boy who talks to animals, and a cousin hidden in the house, and between them the garden comes back to life.

Frances Hodgson Burnett published the novel in 1911. It was not at first her most popular book, and became, during the twentieth century, one of the most loved of all children’s novels.

The twenty-seven chapters are given complete, from “There Is No One Left” to “In the Garden”.

Contents

  1. Chapter I — There Is No One Left
  2. Chapter II — Mistress Mary Quite Contrary
  3. Chapter III — Across the Moor
  4. Chapter IV — Martha
  5. Chapter V — The Cry in the Corridor
  6. Chapter VI — “There Was Someone Crying—There Was!”
  7. Chapter VII — The Key to the Garden
  8. Chapter VIII — The Robin Who Showed the Way
  9. Chapter IX — The Strangest House Anyone Ever Lived in
  10. Chapter X — Dickon
  11. Chapter XI — The Nest of the Missel Thrush
  12. Chapter XII — “Might I Have a Bit of Earth?”
  13. Chapter XIII — “I Am Colin”
  14. Chapter XIV — A Young Rajah
  15. Chapter XV — Nest Building
  16. Chapter XVI — “I Won’t!” Said Mary
  17. Chapter XVII — A Tantrum
  18. Chapter XVIII — “Tha’ Munnot Waste No Time”
  19. Chapter XIX — “It Has Come!”
  20. Chapter XX — “I Shall Live Forever—And Ever—And Ever!”
  21. Chapter XXI — Ben Weatherstaff
  22. Chapter XXII — When the Sun Went Down
  23. Chapter XXIII — Magic
  24. Chapter XXIV — “Let Them Laugh”
  25. Chapter XXV — The Curtain
  26. Chapter XXVI — “It’s Mother!”
  27. Chapter XXVII — In the Garden

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Frances Hodgson Burnett

1849–1924 · Victorian

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