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The Secret Garden

By Frances Hodgson Burnett
Series: Oxford World's Classics
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An orphaned girl, Mary Lennox, arrives at a grim moorland manor where she discovers a locked, walled garden with its key buried. With the help of a boy who talks to animals and the magical garden itself, Mary transforms from a spoilt, unhappy child into a healthy, unselfish young girl. Through her journey, she redeems her neglected cousin and his gloomy father, in a story of regeneration and salvation that gently subverts traditional romantic and gothic conventions.
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Format: Paperback / softback
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Ideal for readers who enjoy classic children's fiction, stories of personal transformation, and those interested in timeless themes of nature, healing, and family.

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An unhappy orphaned girl is transformed by the redeeming power of nature into an unselfish child who transforms the lives of others in Burnett's classic children's story. This edition explores the relationship between the book and other literary genres and historical influences, and includes the companion-piece, 'My Robin'.

Marking the one hundredth anniversary of the publication of The Secret Garden, this new edition of Frances Hodgson Burnett's classic tale features a fascinating introduction by Peter Hunt, full explanatory notes, and an updated bibliography

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‘It was the garden that did it - and Mary and Dickon and the creatures - and the Magic.’

An orphaned girl, a grim moorland manor with hundreds of empty rooms, strange cries in the night, a walled garden, with its door locked and the key buried - and a boy who talks to animals. These are the ingredients of one of the most famous and well-loved of children's classics. Through her discovery of the secret garden, Mary Lennox is gradually transformed from a spoilt and unhappy child into a healthy, unselfish girl who in turn redeems her neglected cousin and his gloomy, Byronic father. Frances Hodgson Burnett's inspiring story of regeneration and salvation gently subverted the conventions of a century of romantic and gothic fiction for girls.

After a hundred years, The Secret Garden's critique of empire and of attitudes to childhood and gender, and its advocacy of a holistic approach to health remains remarkably contemporary and relevant.

ABOUT THE SERIES: For over 100 years Oxford World's Classics has made available the widest range of literature from around the globe. Each affordable volume reflects Oxford's commitment to scholarship, providing the most accurate text plus a wealth of other valuable features, including expert introductions by leading authorities, helpful notes to clarify the text, up-to-date bibliographies for further study, and much more.

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The Daily Mail praises it as "a jolly good, heart-warming classic."

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INFORMATION

ISBN: 9780199588220

Publisher: Oxford University Press

Format: Paperback / softback

Date Published: 10 March 2011

Country: United Kingdom

Imprint: Oxford University Press

Contributors:

  • Edited by Peter Hunt

Audience: General / adult, Children

DIMENSIONS

Spine width: 17.0mm

Width: 133.0mm

Height: 196.0mm

Weight: 213g

Pages: 288

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Children’s, Teenage and Educational Classic Fiction Fiction Frances Hodgson Burnett General Fiction Literary Fiction Series: Oxford World's Classics

About the Author

Peter Hunt has written or edited eighteen books on the subject of children's literature, including An Introduction to Children's Literature (OUP, 1994) and Children's Literature: Critical Concepts in Literary and Cultural Studies (4 vols. 2006). He has written novels for children, and has edited Alice's Adventures in Wonderland, The Wind in the Willows, and Treasure Island for Oxford World's Classics. In 2003 he was awarded the Brothers Grimm Award for services to children's literature by the International Institute for Children's Literature, Osaka.

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