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The Secret Garden Mass market paperbound - 1990

by Frances Hodgson Burnett


About this book

The Secret Garden, written by Frances Hodgson Burnett, has remained one of the most popular children’s books since its publication in The American Magazine in 1910. The story tells of childhood emotions and experiences while keeping the central theme - if something is cared for, it will thrive. 

The Secret Garden introduces us to a sour little girl, Mary Lennox, who is NOT a pleasure to be around. In fact, she yells like a little princess, can't make friends, and simply despises everything.

She remains quite contrary until she helps her garden grow - and finds someone worse off than herself to bring along for the ride. 

Burnett was a British American novelist and playwright, best known for her novels Little Lord Fauntleroy, A Little Princess, and The Secret Garden. She regularly found inspiration through her observations of nature and the walled gardens at Maytham Hall in Kent England.

The American Magazine published the first edition of The Secret Garden in 1910


From the publisher

Tor Classics are affordably-priced editions designed to attract the young reader. Original dynamic cover art enthusiastically represents the excitement of each story. Appropriate "reader friendly" type sizes have been chosen for each title--offering clear, accurate, and readable text. All editions are complete and unabridged, and feature Introductions and Afterwords.

This edition of "The Secret Garden" includes a Foreword, Biographical Note, and Afterword by Jane Yolen.

May is sullen and ugly. Orphaned, unloved and left alone, she has no reason to live. Colin is twisted and dying. Crippled, vicious, rejected by his own family, he has no hope to live. But Dickon is strange and wild. He sleeps on the moors, calls animals to him, and speaks the language of flowers--all he knows is how to live.

And a bird of early spring leads them all to a mystery. A walled garden filled with ghosts of love and loss. Only Mary can unlock the garden's hidden door. Only Dickon can find the green pulse within the dead land. And only Colin can summon forth an ancient power that might give two lost children the strength to survive...

They thought the power in the secret garden was magic. It was.

First line

WHEN MARY LENNOX WAS SENT TO MISSELTHWAITE MANOR to live with her uncle everybody said she was the most disagreeable-looking child ever seen.

First Edition Identification

The book was first published by Heinemann in London in 1911 with illustrations by Charles Heath Robinson as a British edition.  The first American edition was published by Fredrick A Stokes and Company with illustration by Maria Louise Kirk. 

The original British edition features green cloth with gilt titles & decoration to the upperboard and spine. This can be identified by a publication date on the front panel.


The First American released two editions simultaneously, one featuring the publisher’s green cloth with illustration only on the upper board and gilt lettering to the spine. The other in blue cloth without illustrations.


Details

  • Title The Secret Garden
  • Author Frances Hodgson Burnett
  • Binding Mass Market Paperbound
  • Edition [ Edition: Repri
  • Pages 288
  • Volumes 1
  • Language ENG
  • Publisher Tor Classics, New York
  • Date January 15, 1990
  • ISBN 9780812505016 / 0812505018
  • Weight 0.3 lbs (0.14 kg)
  • Dimensions 6.78 x 4.24 x 0.78 in (17.22 x 10.77 x 1.98 cm)
  • Ages 11 to 15 years
  • Grade levels 6 - 10
  • Reading level 970
  • Library of Congress Catalog Number 90080198
  • Dewey Decimal Code FIC

About the author

Frances Hodgson Burnett was the author of such classics as "The Little Princess" and "The Secret Garden."

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