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





