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The Secret Garden

by Frances Hodgson Burnett

An unloved, unpleasant child is sent to a cold estate and finds a walled garden nobody has tended in a decade. Tending it turns out to tend her as well, and a bedridden cousin along with her. It is the rare book in which a garden is the actual protagonist and everyone concedes the point gracefully.

The librarian
Read it in the Library After Dark Or read it as plain text
Reading time
About 5 hr 25 min
Where to find it
The English Reading Room
Edition
Project Gutenberg, eBook #113. In the public domain in the United States.

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