The secret garden

by

284 pages

English language

Published July 9, 1987 by Dell.

ISBN:
9780440400554

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2 stars (1 review)

A ten-year-old orphan comes to live in a lonely house on the Yorkshire moors where she discovers an invalid cousin and the mysteries of a locked garden.

96 editions

reviewed The Secret Garden by Frances Hodgson Burnett

Started out good and then just went flat

2 stars

So, only after reading the whole thing did I learn that this is supposed to be a kid's book, but like...I dunno. It kinda sucks? The prose is very good, to the point where the first half of the book is excellent, but then everyone's problems are solved by the magical powers of the outdoors and positive thinking and then the book ends.

Subjects

  • Orphans -- Juvenile fiction
  • Gardens -- Juvenile fiction
  • People with disabilities -- Juvenile fiction
  • Yorkshire (England) -- Juvenile fiction