The Secret Garden
Author: Frances Hodgson Burnett
An orphaned girl, a grim moorland manor with hundreds of empty rooms, strange cries in the night, and a walled garden, with its door locked and the key buried. These are the ingredients of one of the most famous and well-loved of children’s classics, an inspiring story of regeneration and salvation that gently subverted the conventions of a century of romantic and gothic f….Read More
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