书名：The Secret Garden  秘密花园
难度：Lexile蓝思阅读指数970L
作者：Frances Hodgson Burnett弗朗西丝·霍奇森·伯内特
出版社名称：HarperCollins
出版时间：2010
语种：英文
ISBN：9780007351060
商品尺寸：11.1 x1.7 x 17.8 cm
包装：简装
页数：270 （以实物为准）

The Secret Garden《秘密花园》是美国儿童文学作家伯内特夫人经典代表作品，一百多年来，被翻译成50多种语言。小说以秘密花园的“复活”阐释了现代社会人们的精神旅程，旨在告诉我们当面对挫折和痛苦时，要学会开启心灵的秘密花园，是成长必读书籍。
本书为柯林斯经典系列，原版进口，小巧轻便，含历史背景及作者介绍（Life & Times），后附英语词汇注释（Glossary of Classic Literature），生词表采用《柯林斯英语词典》的解释，有助于读者学习理解。
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“Where, you tend a rose, my lad, A thistle cannot grow.” Orphaned and sent to live with her uncle in his austere manor on the moors, Mary Lennox is a lonely and unhappy child. A meeting with Dickon, her servant’s brother begins her adventure and it is through their friendship and her relationship with her troubled hypochondriac cousin Colin that she begins to learn about herself. Their lives all begin to change when a Robin shows Mary the door to a mysterious secret garden.
Features: 
·Life & Times—a fascinating insight into the author, their work and the time of publication
·Glossary of Classic Literature—useful words and phrases at your fingertips, taken from Collins English Dictionary

The Secret Garden《秘密花园》主要讲述了一个任性而孤僻的富家小女孩玛丽因为一场突来的瘟疫变成了孤儿，被送往英国一处古老庄园里的亲戚家中收养。在幽僻宁静的乡野和淳朴的乡人中间，她的性情渐渐变得平易。一天深夜，循着神秘大宅长廊一端传来的隐隐哭声，她被带到了一个同样古怪而孤独的小生命面前。玛丽的表兄，大宅的少主人科林生来体弱，长年卧病在床，性情乖戾难测。为了帮助科林，玛丽带他进入了庄园里被关闭多年的秘密花园。孩子们在生机蓬勃的小天地里不受干扰地玩耍，学会了友爱待人，恢复了纯真快乐的天性。
When Mary Lennox is sent to Misselthwaite Manor to live with her uncle everybody says she is the most disagreeable-looking child ever seen. It is true, too. Mary is pale, spoilt and quite contrary. But she is also horribly lonely. Then one day she hears about a garden in the grounds of the Manor that has been kept locked and hidden for years. And when a friendly robin helps Mary find the key, she discovers the most magical place anyone could imagine...

Frances Hodgson Burnett弗朗西丝·霍奇森·伯内特（1849-1924），世界家喻户晓的儿童文学作家，1849年出生于英国曼彻斯特，1865年随全家移民美国田纳西州，代表作The Secret Garden《秘密花园》（1911）、A Little Princess《小公主》（1905）、Little Lord Fauntleroy《小勋爵》（1855-6）。
Frances Hodgson Burnett (1849–1924) was an English-American author and playwright. She is best known for her incredibly popular novels for children, includingLittle Lord Fauntleroy, A Little Princess, andThe Secret Garden.

Chapter 1  There Is No One Left                
Chapter 2  Mistress Mary Quite Contrary        
Chapter 3  Across the Moor                   
Chapter 4  Martha                           
Chapter 5  The Cry in the Corridor           
Chapter 6  “There Was Some One Crying—There Was!”
Chapter 7  The Key to the Garden
Chapter 8  The Robin Who Showed the Way
Chapter 9  The strangest House Anyone Ever lived In
Chapter 10  Dickon
Chapter 11  The Nest of the Missel Thrush
Chapter 12  “Might I Have a Bit of Earth?”
Chapter 13  “I Am Colin”
Chapter 14  A Young Rajah
Chapter 15  Nest Building
Chapter 16  “I Won’t!” Said Mary
Chapter 17  A Tantrum
Chapter 18  “Tha’ Munnot Waste No Time”
Chapter 19  “It Has Come!”
Chapter 20  “I Shall Live Forever—And Ever—And Ever!”
Chapter 21  Ben Weatherstaff
Chapter 22  When the Sun Went Down
Chapter 23  Magic
Chapter 24  “Let Them Laugh”
Chapter 25  The Curtain
Chapter 26  “It’s Mother!”
Chapter 27  In the Garden

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 was made to understand that if she wished to please the Mem Sahib she must keep the child out of sight as much as possible. So when she was a sickly, fretful, ugly little baby she was kept out of the way, and when she became a sickly, fretful, toddling thing she was kept out of the way also. She never remembered seeing familiarly anything but the dark faces of her Ayah and the other native servants, and as they always obeyed her and gave her her own way in everything, because the Mem Sahib would be angry if she was disturbed by her crying, by the time she was six years old she was as tyrannical and selfish a little pig as ever lived. The young English governess who came to teach her to read and write disliked her so much that she gave up her place in three months, and when other governesses came to try to fill it they always went away in a shorter time than the first one. So if Mary had not chosen to really want to know how to read books she would never have learned her letters at all.
One frightfully hot morning, when she was about nine years old, she awakened feeling very cross, and she became crosser still when she saw that the servant who stood by her bedside was not her Ayah.
“Why did you come?” she said to the strange woman. “I will not let you stay. Send my Ayah to me.”
The woman looked frightened, but she only stammered that the Ayah could not come and when Mary threw herself into a passion and beat and kicked her, she looked only more frightened and repeated that it was not possible for the Ayah to come to Missie Sahib.