# The Secret Garden

Author: Burnett, Frances Hodgson, 1849-1924

Genre: Children's Literature

Language: English

License: Public domain

Source: https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/113

Amazon editions: https://www.amazon.com/s?k=The+Secret+Garden+Burnett&tag=cyberlibrar00-20

## Summary

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...

## Chapters

- [CHAPTER I.](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/the-secret-garden-113/chapters/1/index.md)
- [CHAPTER II.](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/the-secret-garden-113/chapters/2/index.md)
- [CHAPTER III.](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/the-secret-garden-113/chapters/3/index.md)
- [CHAPTER IV.](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/the-secret-garden-113/chapters/4/index.md)
- [CHAPTER V](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/the-secret-garden-113/chapters/5/index.md)
- [CHAPTER VI.](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/the-secret-garden-113/chapters/6/index.md)
- [CHAPTER VII.](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/the-secret-garden-113/chapters/7/index.md)
- [CHAPTER VIII.](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/the-secret-garden-113/chapters/8/index.md)
- [CHAPTER IX.](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/the-secret-garden-113/chapters/9/index.md)
- [CHAPTER X.](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/the-secret-garden-113/chapters/10/index.md)
- [CHAPTER XI.](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/the-secret-garden-113/chapters/11/index.md)
- [CHAPTER XII.](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/the-secret-garden-113/chapters/12/index.md)
- [CHAPTER XIII.](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/the-secret-garden-113/chapters/13/index.md)
- [CHAPTER XIV.](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/the-secret-garden-113/chapters/14/index.md)
- [CHAPTER XV.](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/the-secret-garden-113/chapters/15/index.md)
- [CHAPTER XVI.](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/the-secret-garden-113/chapters/16/index.md)
- [CHAPTER XVII.](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/the-secret-garden-113/chapters/17/index.md)
- [CHAPTER XVIII.](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/the-secret-garden-113/chapters/18/index.md)
- [CHAPTER XIX.](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/the-secret-garden-113/chapters/19/index.md)
- [CHAPTER XX.](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/the-secret-garden-113/chapters/20/index.md)
- [CHAPTER XXI.](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/the-secret-garden-113/chapters/21/index.md)
- [CHAPTER XXII.](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/the-secret-garden-113/chapters/22/index.md)
- [CHAPTER XXIII.](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/the-secret-garden-113/chapters/23/index.md)
- [CHAPTER XXIV.](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/the-secret-garden-113/chapters/24/index.md)
- [CHAPTER XXV.](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/the-secret-garden-113/chapters/25/index.md)
- [CHAPTER XXVI.](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/the-secret-garden-113/chapters/26/index.md)
- [CHAPTER XXVII.](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/the-secret-garden-113/chapters/27/index.md)