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Frances Hodgson Burnett
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The Secret Garden (Penguin Popular Classics) |
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English |
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Paperback |
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288 |
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2007-01-25 |
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0140621539 |
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Penguin Classics |
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0.35 pounds |
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0.43 x 4.37 x 7.13 inches |
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New Ed |
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Product Description
After the death of her parents, Mary is brought back from India as a forlorn and unwanted child, to live in her uncle's great lonely house on the moors. Then one day she discovers the key to a secret garden and, like magic, her life begins to brighten in so many ways.
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jacquie (United Kingdom) (2010/01/16):
Mary Lennox, lonely and unwanted, arrives from India to live with her uncle in Yorkshire.
Left to herself there is little to do apart from explore the huge, gloomy house and its surroundings until, one sunny orning, she stumbles across a secret garden, hidden behind ivy-clad walls. For the first time in her sad short life she has found something to care for and she determines to restore the garden to its former glory. As the garden begins to blossom and is magically transformed no one is left untouched...
A sensitive portrayal of the world seen through children's eyes, 'The Secret Garden' is one of the great classics of story-telling, hugely popular with children and adults alike.
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