The Secret Garden
Publisher: Standard Ebooks
Published: 2016
Language: eng
Subjects: Orphans -- Fiction; People with disabilities -- Fiction; Gardens -- Fiction; Yorkshire (England) -- Fiction
Description: <p>Mary’s parents fall ill and die, forcing her to be transplanted from India to the English countryside. She arrives at a strange and foreign country manor, where she discovers a long-neglected garden and hears strange sobbing noises at night.</p>
			<p>Thus begins <i>The Secret Garden</i>, a children’s book with an unusually dense collection of themes, symbols, and motifs. Mary’s personal development mirrors her unraveling the secret of the hidden garden, and a subtle backdrop of magical realism adds a mysterious air to the proceedings.</p>
			<p>Contemporary reception left <i>The Secret Garden</i> largely unnoticed, eclipsed by <a href="https://standardebooks.org/ebooks/frances-hodgson-burnett">Hodgson’s</a> other work, <a href="https://standardebooks.org/ebooks/frances-hodgson-burnett/little-lord-fauntleroy"><i>Little Lord Fauntleroy</i></a>. Since then, however, the book’s reputation has steadily grown, with modern critics considering it one of the finest children’s books of the 20th century.</p>