Rank 71 of 100
The Secret Garden
Synopsis
Mary Lennox, sour and recently orphaned, is sent to a Yorkshire manor where a locked garden and a hidden invalid cousin are the household’s two secrets. Burnett’s plot is simple on purpose. Attention, dirt under the nails, and one stubborn friendship do the repairing.
Synopses are original catalog copy written for Every Book Ever, not publisher blurbs.
Catalogue card
- Year
- 1911
- Language
- English
- Country
- United Kingdom
- Form
- Children's novel
- Genre
- Children's, Coming of age
- Audience
- Children
- Era
- 1900–1945
- Movement
- Edwardian
- Series
- —
- Length
- About 331 pages
- Reported copies
- Among the most read children's novels
- Kind
- Fiction