The Secret Garden

Resumen del libro

"People never like me and I never like people," Mary thought.' 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, spoilt 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...

Biografía del autor

FRANCES HODGSON BURNETT (Manchester, 1849-Nueva York, 1924), escritora americana de origen inglés, publicó numerosos cuentos y relatos en revistas como Scribner;s Monthly o Harper;s Bazaar. En 1886 apareció su primer libro juvenil, El pequeño Lord, que en su época vendió más de un millón de ejemplares. Sin embargo, su obra más conocida es El jardín secreto (1911).