The Secret Garden
A sour, neglected child is sent to a shuttered Yorkshire manor and finds a walled garden locked for ten years. Bringing it back to life brings the household with it.
Things worth knowing
- It ran first as an illustrated serial in The American Magazine, a magazine for adults, in the autumn of 1910, and appeared as a book a year later.
- At Maytham Hall in Kent, which she leased for ten years and lost in 1908, Burnett wrote outdoors at a table in a sheltered garden and tamed a robin; the robin and the gardens both went into the book.
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Every chapter has the recording and the same chapter as text. Open both if you like: the text is the words you are hearing.
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1 Chapter One 10 min
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2 Chapter Two 14 min
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3 Chapter Three 8 min
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4 Chapter Four 28 min
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5 Chapter Five 11 min
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6 Chapter Six 11 min
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7 Chapter Seven 11 min
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8 Chapter Eight 14 min
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9 Chapter Nine 17 min
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10 Chapter Ten 20 min
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11 Chapter Eleven 14 min
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12 Chapter Twelve 14 min
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13 Chapter Thirteen 22 min
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14 Chapter Fourteen 20 min
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15 Chapter Fifteen 20 min
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16 Chapter Sixteen 12 min
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17 Chapter Seventeen 12 min
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18 Chapter Eighteen 11 min
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19 Chapter Nineteen 19 min
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20 Chapter Twenty 14 min
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21 Chapter Twenty-One 18 min
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22 Chapter Twenty-Two 9 min
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23 Chapter Twenty-Three 22 min
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24 Chapter Twenty-Four 21 min
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25 Chapter Twenty-Five 12 min
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26 Chapter Twenty-Six 17 min
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27 Chapter Twenty-Seven 27 min
Where this comes from
US public domain: first published 1911, before the 1930 cutoff. Author d.1924, so also clear in life+70 jurisdictions.
Cover image: Illustration by Charles Robinson, published William Heinemann, London, 1912.
Narration: text-to-speech.
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