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The Secret Garden

Frances Hodgson Burnett (1849–1924)

28 chapters and parts · about 7 hours to read

What the book is about

"The Secret Garden" by Frances Hodgson Burnett is a children's novel first published in 1911. When orphaned Mary Lennox arrives at her uncle's gloomy Yorkshire manor, she discovers a locked garden that has been abandoned for ten years. As Mary explores this hidden world, she uncovers family secrets and finds an unexpected companion—her bedridden cousin Colin. Together with a nature-loving boy named Dickon, the children nurture the forgotten garden back to life, transforming themselves in the process.

This summary comes from the Project Gutenberg catalogue, where it was written automatically.

  • Gardens -- Juvenile fiction
  • Orphans -- Juvenile fiction
  • People with disabilities -- Juvenile fiction
  • Yorkshire (England) -- Juvenile fiction

Chapters

  1. Opening pagesabout 1 minute
  2. Chapter IThere Is No One Leftabout 10 minutes
  3. Chapter IIMistress Mary Quite Contraryabout 13 minutes
  4. Chapter IIIAcross the Moorabout 7 minutes
  5. Chapter IVMarthaabout 26 minutes
  6. Chapter VThe Cry in the Corridorabout 11 minutes
  7. Chapter VI“There Was Someone Crying—there Was!”about 11 minutes
  8. Chapter VIIThe Key to the Gardenabout 10 minutes
  9. Chapter VIIIThe Robin Who Showed the Wayabout 14 minutes
  10. Chapter IXThe Strangest House Anyone Ever Lived inabout 16 minutes
  11. Chapter XDickonabout 19 minutes
  12. Chapter XIThe Nest of the Missel Thrushabout 12 minutes
  13. Chapter XII“Might I Have a Bit of Earth?”about 13 minutes
  14. Chapter XIII“I Am Colin”about 21 minutes
  15. Chapter XIVA Young Rajahabout 18 minutes
  16. Chapter XVNest Buildingabout 20 minutes
  17. Chapter XVI“I Won’t!” Said Maryabout 12 minutes
  18. Chapter XVIIA Tantrumabout 11 minutes
  19. Chapter XVIII“Tha’ Munnot Waste No Time”about 11 minutes
  20. Chapter XIX“It Has Come!”about 18 minutes
  21. Chapter XX“I Shall Live Forever—and Ever—and Ever!”about 13 minutes
  22. Chapter XXIBen Weatherstaffabout 16 minutes
  23. Chapter XXIIWhen the Sun Went Downabout 8 minutes
  24. Chapter XXIIIMagicabout 20 minutes
  25. Chapter XXIV“Let Them Laugh”about 20 minutes
  26. Chapter XXVThe Curtainabout 12 minutes
  27. Chapter XXVI“It’s Mother!”about 15 minutes
  28. Chapter XXVIIIn the Gardenabout 26 minutes

The Secret Garden, by Frances Hodgson Burnett, is in the public domain in the United States. Text from Project Gutenberg, eBook #113, with thanks. Sureno removed Project Gutenberg's header and licence and set the text in large print; this is not an official Project Gutenberg edition. Outside the United States, check your own country's copyright rules before copying it.

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