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What is The Secret Garden about?

The Secret Garden by Frances Hodgson Burnett was published in 1911. After her parents die of cholera in India, Mary Lennox, a sour and lonely ten-year-old, is sent to live with her uncle at Misselthwaite Manor on the Yorkshire moors.

She learns of a garden locked for ten years and finds the way in, with help from a robin, a housemaid's brother Dickon, and later her sickly cousin Colin. The book follows how the garden and fresh air change all three children.

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Is The Secret Garden free to download?

Yes. The Secret Garden was first published in 1911, so it is in the US public domain. Frances Hodgson Burnett died in 1924, so it is also free in the EU, where copyright ends 70 years after death. This edition comes from Standard Ebooks, which releases its texts under CC0.

What is The Secret Garden about?

A lonely orphan finds a hidden garden at her uncle's house and brings it back to life, along with two other children.

Who wrote The Secret Garden?

Frances Hodgson Burnett, an English-American author.