The Secret Garden

A beautiful deluxe gift edition of the enchanting childhood classic with foiled covers, marbled endpapers, sprayed edges, beautiful paper and finished with a silk ribbon.

When Mary Lennox is sent to Misselthwaite Manor to live with her uncle, everybody says she is the most disagreeable-looking child ever seen. It is true, too. Mary is pale, spoiled, and quite contrary. But she is also horribly lonely. Then one day she hears about a garden in the grounds of the Manor that has been kept locked and hidden for years. And when a friendly robin helps Mary find the key, she discovers the most magical place anyone could imagine...

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Frances Hodgson Burnett was born in Manchester, England in 1849. After living in poverty, she emigrated to the United States in 1865. She wrote over forty books; the best-known today are The Secret Garden, A Little Princess, and Little Lord Fauntleroy. She died in 1924.