The Secret Garden

by Frances Hodgson Burnett

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"The Secret Garden" by Frances Hodgson Burnett is a children's novel first published in 1911. When orphaned Mary Lennox arrives at her uncle's gloomy Yorkshire manor, she discovers a locked garden that has been abandoned for ten years. As Mary uncovers the garden's secrets, she befriends a nature-loving boy and finds her bedridden cousin Colin hidden away in the house.

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