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书名：The Secret Garden 秘密花园
难度：Lexile蓝思阅读指数710
作者：Frances Hodgson Burnett弗朗西丝·霍奇森·伯内特
出版社名称：Bantam Classics
出版时间：1987
语种：英文
ISBN：9780553212013
商品尺寸：10.5x 1.6 x 17.5 cm
包装：简装
页数：282
The Secret Garden《秘密花园》是美国儿童文学作家伯内特夫人的经典代表，被认为是一部无年龄界限的佳作，各年龄阶段的读者都适合阅读。一百多年来，《秘密花园》已被翻译成50多种语言，并不断被改编成戏剧、电影、幼儿读物等作品，经久不衰。本书为Bantam Classics推出的英文版，内容完整无删节，采用轻型环保纸印刷，体积轻盈小巧，方便携带。
Few children’s classics can match the charm and originality of Frances Hodgson Burnett’sThe Secret Garden, the unforgettable story of sullen, sulky Mary Lennox, “the most disagreeable-looking child ever seen.” When a cholera epidemic leaves her as 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 transformation in children’s literature, as Mary her sickly and tyrannical cousin Colin and a peasant boy named Dickson 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 and enchanted world of childhood.
The Secret Garden《秘密花园》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。一个因牵涉死亡记忆而被关闭的花园，现在，因为新生命在其中焕发出的活力，被重新开启。这不能不说是自然力的秘密，生命力的奇迹。
A house full of mystery awaits orphaned Mary Lennox when she comes to live with her uncle on the Yorkshire moors. At night she hears a distant crying that no one will explain, and her uncle is strangely unhappy. But when she meets Dickon, a magical boy who charms both birds and animals, and discovers a walled, locked garden, the secrets of Misselthwaite Manor begin to unfold.
When orphaned Mary Lennox, lonely and sad, comes to live at her uncle’s great house on the Yorkshire moors, she finds it full of secrets. At night, she hears the sound of crying down one of the long corridors. Outside, she meets Dickon, a magical boy who can charm and talk to animals. Then, one day, with the help of a friendly robin, Mary discovers the most mysterious wonder of all—a secret garden, walled and locked, which has been completely forgotten for years and years. Is everything in the garden dead, or can Mary bring it back to life?
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 playwright and author. She is best known for her children’s stories, in particularThe Secret Garden(published in 1911),A Little Princess (published in 1905), andLittle Lord Fauntleroy (published in 1885-6). She was born in Cheetham, England and in 1865 emigrated to the United States, settling near Knoxville, Tennessee.
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.
