Few children's classics can match the charm and originality of Frances Hodgson Burnett's THE SECRET GARDEN, the unforgettable story of sullen, sulky Mary Lennox, "the most disagreeable-looking child ever seen." When a cholera epidemic leaves her an orphan,Mary is sent to England to live with her reclusive uncle, Archibald Craven, at Misselthwaite Manor.Unloved and unloving, Mary wanders the desolate moors until one day she chances upon the door of a secret garden.

What follows is one of the most beautiful tales of trans for mation in children's literature, as Mary,her sickly and tyrannical cousin Colin, and a peasant boy named Dickon secretly strive to make the garden bloom once more.A unique blend of realism and magic,THE SECRET GARDEN remains a moving expression of every child's need to nurture and be nurtured--a story that has captured for all time the rare andenchanted world of childhood.

弗朗西絲·霍奇森·伯內特（1849年-1924），一位影響瞭整個20世紀的英國女作傢，是最早使用現代心理描寫手法進行少兒文學創作的作傢之一。齣於曼徹斯特，你親早逝，傢境貧寒。16歲時，弗朗西絲隨全傢移民美國；18歲時，開始發錶作品；28風時，齣版瞭她的第一部暢銷書《勞瑞傢的閨女》；62歲時，他作瞭她最著名最成功的作品《秘密花園》，奠定瞭她在英國文學史上舉足輕重的地位。此外還有代錶作品《小公主》、《小少爺方特羅伊》等，廣愛歐美國傢青少年的喜愛，都是世界文學寶庫中的經典著作。