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The Secret Garden


The Classic Stories

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No. of pages 448

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The Secret Garden is the story of lonely Mary Lennox and her bedridden cousin Colin who find friendship and health as they restore a forgotten garden to its former glory. In A Little Princess lively and imaginative Sara Crewe is a model pupil at boarding school until her father's death leaves her a penniless orphan forced into servitude. Her fortunes change when gifts start to appear in her room, and she discovers that an old friend of her father has been searching for her in order to restore her fortunes.

 

This book is part of a book series called The Classic Stories .

There are 448 pages in this book. This book was published 2010 by Anness Publishing .

Frances Hodgson Burnett was an English-American playwright and author. She is best known for her children's stories, in particular Little Lord Fauntleroy, A Little Princess, and The Secret Garden.

This book contains the following stories:

The Secret Garden
When Mary Lennox is sent to Misselthwaite Manor to live with her uncle everybody says she is the most disagreeable-looking child ever seen. It is true, too. Mary is pale, spoilt and quite contrary. But she is also horribly lonely. Then one day she hears about a garden in the grounds of the Manor that has been kept locked and hidden for years. And when a friendly robin helps Mary find the key, she discovers the most magical place anyone could imagine...

A Little Princess
Hodgson Burnett's tale of a wealthy little girl at boarding school who falls out of favour when Daddy's wealth disappears is a lesson in coping with changing fortunes. Sara Crewe is sent to a girl's boarding school whilst her father carries on his business in India. Pretty and rich Sara is the favourite of all, but still manages to be kind and thoughtful. When news comes that her father is dead and the money gone the boarding mistress does not feel she can throw Sara out so she makes her a housemaid, shifting her to the attic with the existing maid. Sara's imagination keeps both her fellow maid and herself sane. In the rooftops they befriend the Indian servant of the man who lives next door. It is through this friendship that Sara is discovered by the friend of her father and rescued from the clutches of the evil boarding mistress. And the servant girl is saved too (although Burnett still keeps her in her place as Sara's servant...).

This book is in the following series:

The Classic Stories

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