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    The Secret Garden (dramatic reading)
    The Secret Garden (dramatic reading)
    The Secret Garden (dramatic reading)
    Audiobook7 hours

    The Secret Garden (dramatic reading)

    Written by Frances Hodgson Burnett

    Narrated by LibriVox Community

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    About this audiobook

    Frances Hodgson Burnett's classic children's novel is about orphaned Mary Lennox, who is sent to live with her uncle at Misslethwaite Manor in Yorkshire. Initially a sour, bad-tempered child, Mary begins to bloom under the influence of nature when she discovers a long-abandoned garden on the grounds of her uncle's estate. Burnett's novel is brought to life by LibriVox volunteers who lend their voices to her characters.

    Summary by Elizabeth Klett

    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherLibriVox
    Release dateAug 25, 2014
    ISBN9781094252391
    The Secret Garden (dramatic reading)
    Author

    Frances Hodgson Burnett

    Frances Hodgson Burnett (1849-1924) was born in Manchester and spent her early years there with her family. Her father died in 1852, and eventually, in 1865, Frances emigrated to the United States with her mother and siblings, settling with family in Knoxville, Tennessee. Frances began to be published at the age of nineteen, submitting short stories to magazines and using the proceeds to help support the family. In 1872, she married Swan Burnett, a doctor, with whom she had two sons while living in Paris. Her first novel, That Lass o'Lowrie's, was published in 1877, while the Burnetts were living in Washington D. C. Following a separation from her husband, Burnett lived on both sides of the Atlantic, eventually marrying for a second time, however she never truly recovered from the death of her first son, Lionel. Best known during her lifetime for Little Lord Fauntleroy (1886), her books for children, including The Secret Garden and The Little Princess, have endured as classics, but Burnett also wrote many other novels for adults, which were hugely popular and favourably compared to authors such as George Eliot.

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    • 3/5
      One of my favorite stories of all time. But I'm not a huge fan of this reading of it. Ben weatherstaff, Colin and Mary and Dicken were read well enough but the Dr was terrible and the narrator was just reading with no passion for the exciting bits, almost like an automated voice. The BBC reading is MUCH better

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    • 5/5
      One of the best, most heartfelt books I’ve ever read!
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      A Classic!












    • 5/5
      I have loved this story since the first time I read it as a child. It is full of every emotion known. It is full of anguish, sorrow, despair, and even more, of love.
    • 4/5
      I really like the book








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      Not interested in children’s book





    • 5/5
      I watched the film as a kid and enjoyed but the book is simply magical. I loved this book!