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'Where, you tend a rose, my lad, A thistle cannot grow.'
Orphaned and sent to live with her uncle in his austere manor on
the moors, Mary Lennox is a lonely and unhappy child. A meeting
with Dickon, her servant's brother begins her adventure and it is
through their friendship and her relationship with her troubled
hypochondriac cousin Colin that she begins to learn about herself.
Their lives all begin to change when a Robin shows Mary the door to
a mysterious secret garden.
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Frances Hodgson Burnett (1849-1924), best known for The Secret
Garden, A Little Princess, and Little Lord Fauntleroy, wrote this
1922 novel about a group of pre-WWI English nobles and commoners
with some pointed political and social commentary. Her sequel,
Robin, completes the story of Robin, Lord Coombe.
It is the child no one ever saw exclaimed the man, turning to his
companions. She has actually been forgotten Why was I forgotten?
Mary said, stamping her foot. Why does nobody come? The young man
whose name was Barney looked at her very sadly. Mary even thought
she saw him wink his eyes as if to wink tears away. Poor little kid
he said. There is nobody left to come. It was in that strange and
sudden way that Mary found out that she had neither father nor
mother left; that they had died and been carried away in the night,
and that the few native servants who had not died also had left the
house as quickly as they could get out of it, none of them even
remembering that there was a Missie Sahib. That was why the place
was so quiet. It was true that there was no one in the bungalow but
herself and the little rustling snake. Bratty and spoiled Mary
Lennox is orphaned when her parents fall victim to a cholera
outbreak in India. As a result, Mary becomes the ward of an uncle
in England she has never met. secluded Misselthwaite Manor, Mary
befriends a high-spirited boy named Dickon and investigates a
secret garden on the Manor grounds. She also discovers a sickly
young cousin, Colin, who has been shut away in a hidden Manor room.
Together Mary and Dickon help Colin blossom, and in the process
Mary finds her identity and melts the heart of her emotionally
distant uncle. -- Publishers Weekly
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Robin (Hardcover)
Frances Hodgson Burnett
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Discovery Miles 9 150
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The White People
Frances Hodgson Burnett
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R806
Discovery Miles 8 060
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At the age of sixteen Frances Hodgson Burnett moved to Tennessee
with her bankrupt family and began writing for American magazines
as means to support herself. Over two decades later Burnett
published "Little Lord Fauntleroy," modeling the character after
her son Vivian. Burnett's text and Reginald Birch's original
illustrations helped popularize a very romantic style of dress for
boys -- a velvet suit with a broad lace collar -- in the late
nineteenth and early twentieth centuries.
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