《The Secret Garden》

作者：弗朗西絲·霍奇森·伯內特 (Frances Hodgson Burnett)
齣版社: Signet Classics; Rei Cen (2003年7月1日)
外文書名: 神秘花園
簡裝: 288頁
語種： 英語
ISBN: 0451528832
條形碼: 9780451528834
商品尺寸: 17.7 x 10.6 x 2 cm
商品重量: 141 g

內容簡介
This timeless classic is a poignant tale of Mary, a lonely orphaned girl sent to a Yorkshire mansion at the edge of a vast lonely moor. At first, she is frightened by this gloomy place until she meets a local boy, Dickon, who's earned the trust of the moor's wild animals, the invalid Colin, an unhappy boy terrified of life, and a mysterious, abandoned garden...

Frances Hodgson Burnett's beloved classic is adapted for beginning readers in this colorfully illustrated version. The spoiled orphan Mary Lennox leaves India to live with her cold uncle in his dreary mansion in England. When Mary hears of a secret garden kept locked for ten years, she is determined to find it and tend it back to life.
 

With the help of her uncle's sickly son and a boy who knows all about nature, Mary secretly transforms the garden - and all of their lives.

作者簡介
Frances Hodgson Burnett lived from 1849 to 1924. She was born in Manchester and lived in great poverty after the death of her father in 1853. She escaped the horror of her surroundings by writing stories and often returned to a rags-to-riches or a riches-to-rags theme. In 1865 her family accepted a relative’s invitation to emigrate to America. They were still poor but the wide open spaces of Tennesssee were better than the slums of Manchester. Frances had to earn money so began writing short pieces for American magazines. In 1873 she married Dr Swan Burnett, and it was under her married name that she became a world-famous children’s writer.
 
Frances Hodgson Burnett wrote over forty books; the two that are best-known today are The Secret Garden and Little Lord Fauntleroy. In later life she became rather eccentric, turned to spiritualism and mystic cults and took to wearing frilly clothes and titian-coloured wigs – this earned her the nickname ‘Fluffy’.

目............................................錄

 Chapter 1: There Is No One Left
 Chapter 2: Martha
 Chapter 3: The Cry in the Corridor
 Chapter 4: The Key of the Garden
 Chapter 5: The Strangest House Anyone Ever Lived In
 Chapter 6: “Might I Have a Bit of Earth?”
 Chapter 7: “I Am Colin”
 Chapter 8: A Young Rajah
 Chapter 9: Nest Building
 Chapter 10: A Tantrum
 Chapter 11: “Tha’ Munnot Waste No Time”
 Chapter 12: “I Shall Live Forever-and Ever-and Ever!”
 Chapter 13: Magic
 Chapter 14: In the Garden