Perhaps everything is dead in it already I don't know.' After losing her parents, young Mary Lennox is sent from India to live in her uncle's gloomy mansion on the wild English moors. Nobody wants it, nobody cares for it, nobody ever goes into it.

→ OOP.The Secret Garden by Frances Hodgson Burnett is a magical novel for adults and children alike 'I've stolen a garden,' she said very fast. It was released as part of a 6-book series with Black Beauty, Anne of Green Gables, Heidi, Peter Pan and The Water Babies. – The 1987 edition is illustrated by Troy Howell and bound in beige leather.

– The 1991 edition is bound in dark green leather and features Charles Robinson‘s original artwork. – The 1996 edition is a reprint of the 1987 edition, illustrated by Troy Howell, bound in brown leather with a green gate on the cover. – The 2001 edition is illustrated by Tasha Tudor, and bound in maroon leather.

It was released in a 3-book Childhood Classic series with A Little Princess and Little Lord Fauntleroy, and a 4-book series of Children’s Classics with Pollyanna, Heidi, and Rebecca of Storybook Farm. – The 2004 edition is illustrated with Charles Robinson‘s original artwork and bound in dark green leather. They are leatherbound, with Smyth-sewn pages, ribbon marker, hubbed spines and gilt page edges. The Secret Garden – Easton Press EditionsĮaston Press have released a few different versions of The Secret Garden. All the editions in this list are beautiful, but in case you’d like a bit more direction, my top picks are marked with a ★. There are many editions of this book available, so this collector’s guide focuses on those editions that are the most beautiful or noteworthy to help you choose a volume for your own library. However, The Secret Garden was quite a departure from her earlier works, as two of the main characters are quite unlikable, hence the story’s original distribution via an adult magazine. She wrote several classic novels apart from The Secret Garden, including Little Lord Fauntleroy and A Little Princess. There she began writing stories to earn money and soon became a successful novelist, playwright, and children’s author. It was first published in 1911, after being serialised in The American Magazine the year before.įrances Hodgson Burnett was born in Manchester, England, in 1849 but moved to America in 1865 after her father died and her family fell on hard times. The Secret Garden is a classic children’s novel about a disagreeable young orphan Mary Lennox, whose heals her own sickly soul when she moves from British India to the wild Yorkshire Moors and makes friends while rebuilding a hidden garden there after finding a mysterious key.

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