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The Secret Garden

The Secret Garden

Burnett, Frances Hodgson

Paperback

Classic Fiction

ISBN10: 1508759553
ISBN13: 9781508759553
Publisher: Createspace Independent Publishing Platform
Published: Mar 7 2015
Pages: 182
Weight: 0.60
Height: 0.42 Width: 6.00 Depth: 9.00
Language: English
If you look the right way, you can see that the whole world is a garden.
--- Frances Hodgson Burnett, The Secret Garden

The Secret Garden is a novel by Frances Hodgson Burnett. It was initially published in serial format starting in the autumn of 1910, and was first published in its entirety in 1911. It is now one of Burnett's most popular novels, and is considered to be a classic of English children's literature. Several stage and film adaptations have been produced.

Public reception

Marketing to both adult and juvenile audiences may have had an effect on its early reception; the book was not as celebrated as Burnett's previous works during her lifetime. The Secret Garden paled in comparison to the popularity of Burnett's other works for a long period. Tracing the book's revival from almost complete eclipse at the time of Burnett's death in 1924, Anne H. Lundin noted that the author's obituary notices all remarked on Little Lord Fauntleroy and passed over The Secret Garden in silence.

With the rise of scholarly work in children's literature over the past quarter-century, The Secret Garden has steadily risen to prominence, and is now one of Burnett's best-known works. The book is often noted as one of the best children's books of the twentieth century. In 2003, the novel was listed at number 51 on the BBC's survey The Big Read. Based on a 2007 online poll, the National Education Association named the book one of its Teachers' Top 100 Books for Children. It was one of the Top 100 Chapter Books of all time in a 2012 poll by School Library Journal. Jeffrey Masson considers it, one of the greatest books ever written for children.

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