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"The Secret Garden" by Frances Hodgson Burnett is a children's novel first published in 1911. When orphaned Mary Lennox arrives at her uncle's gloomy Yorkshire manor, she discovers a locked garden that has been abandoned for ten years. As Mary explores this hidden world, she uncovers family secrets and finds an unexpected companion—her bedridden cousin Colin. Together with a nature-loving boy named Dickon, the children nurture the forgotten garden back to life, transforming themselves in the process. (This is an automatically generated summary.)

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I. THERE IS NO ONE LEFT II. MISTRESS MARY QUITE CONTRARY III. ACROSS THE MOOR IV. MARTHA V. THE CRY IN THE CORRIDOR VI. “THERE WAS SOMEONE CRYING—THERE WAS!” VII. THE KEY TO THE GARDEN VIII. THE ROBIN WHO SHOWED THE WAY IX. THE STRANGEST HOUSE ANYONE EVER LIVED IN X. DICKON XI. THE NEST OF THE MISSEL THRUSH XII. “MIGHT I HAVE A BIT OF EARTH?” XIII. “I AM COLIN” XIV. A YOUNG RAJAH XV. NEST BUILDING XVI. “I WON’T!” SAID MARY XVII. A TANTRUM XVIII. “THA’ MUNNOT WASTE NO TIME” XIX. “IT HAS COME!” XX. “I SHALL LIVE FOREVER—AND EVER—AND EVER!” XXI. BEN WEATHERSTAFF XXII. WHEN THE SUN WENT DOWN XXIII. MAGIC XXIV. “LET THEM LAUGH” XXV. THE CURTAIN XXVI. “IT’S MOTHER!” XXVII. IN THE GARDEN

CHAPTER I. THERE IS NO ONE LEFT

When Mary Lennox was sent to Misselthwaite Manor to live with her uncle everybody said she was the most disagreeable-looking child ever seen. It was true, too. She had a little thin face and a little thin body, thin light hair and a sour expression. Her hair was yellow, and her face was yellow because she had been born in India and had always been ill in one way or another. Her father had held a position under the English Government and had always been busy and ill himself, and her mother had been a great beauty who cared only to go to parties and amuse herself with gay people. She had not wanted a little girl at all, and when Mary was born she handed her over to the care of an Ayah, who was made to understand that if she wished to plea

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