The Secret Garden

After loosing her parents, young Mary Lennox is sent from India to live in her uncle's gloomy mansion on the wild Yorkshire moors. Exploring the grounds, Mary discovers a walled garden, locked up, abandoned and in ruins, and in a distant room in the house she finds a cousin she never knew existed - Collin, and invalid, ignored by his father and expecting to die. Mary and Dickon, the housemaid's spirited brother, befriend Collin and set about restoring the garden, opening up a world of magic and reconciling the children to the world of life. Originally published em 1911, The Secret Garden is an extraordinary novel that highlights the transforming powers of love, joy and nature, and of mystical faith and positive thinking.

Aventura / Fantasia / Ficção / História / Infantil / Infantojuvenil / Literatura Estrangeira