美國女作家弗蘭西斯·H·伯內特的《秘密花園》 （The SecretGarden），是一部百年來暢銷不衰的經典 ，它被一代代孩子們不斷重復閱讀，是很多人童年時代記憶最深刻的一本書。故事主要講述了一個在 中失去父母的 ，搬到英國后重新獲得幸福生活的故事。一場霍亂使性情怪戾的瑪麗成了孤兒，她只得被送往遠在英國約克郡的密素斯特莊園和姨父克萊文先生一起生活。克萊文先生傷心妻子之死，變得陰郁古怪消沉遁世，他的莊園里有上百間被鎖閉的房間，有十年不許 進入的秘密花園?，旣愐馔獾卦?的幫助下找到這個秘密花園的大門和鑰匙，并且，她還聽到了一個神秘的哭聲，吸引著她去之謎。
瑪麗在迪肯的幫助下，使荒蕪的花園重現生機。不久，被認為離死不遠的莊園小主人科林也參與了進來。大自然的力量改變了一切，長年籠罩在陰霾之下的古老莊園及其主人也一同獲得了新生。
The Secret Garden is anovel by Frances Hodgson Burnett. It was first published in its entirety in1911. It is now one of Burnett's most popular novels, and is considered to be aclassic of English children's literature. Several stage and film adaptationshave been produced.
This book bringstogether the three lonely children: Mary, who has no close family and is notfond of people; Colin, who is so full of hatred, self-pity and anger, and whois not even sure whether his father loves him, but is certain that he is goingto die; and Dickon, who although constantly has a bright and sunny disposition,prefers the company of animals to people, until he meets Mary.
The Secret Garden is charming and wonderfully written, full of the rightamount of intrigue for children. It is considered to be the epitome ofchildren’s literature, it is still read and loved by many children today, eventhough it’s over 100 years old.
◎美國兒童文學作家伯內特夫人*負盛名的作品，暢銷一百多年的世界經典兒童小說。
◎無年齡的全民閱讀英文讀物，所有兒童小說書目都在推薦，講述大自然的秘密魔法，讀過的人獲益一生。
◎收入《牛津世界經典叢書》《企鵝二十世紀經典叢書》，影響了兩位諾貝爾文學獎得主T.S.艾略特和D.H.勞倫斯的寫作。
◎英國人*喜愛看的100部書之一，英語國家陶冶子女情操的讀物，歐美各國將其列入英語教材。
◎治愈系，大自然的魔法故事，每個人心中都有一座秘密花園，跳躍著心靈成長的力量
◎英文原版，原汁原味，英文學習者的美文閱讀，提升英文水平！
Chapter 1
There’s No One Left
When Mary Lennox was sent to MisselthwaiteManor to live with her uncle, everybody said she was the mostdisagreeable-looking child ever seen. It was true, too. She had a little thinface and a little thin body, thin light hair and a sour expression. Her hairwas yellow, and her face was yellow because she had been born in India and hadalways been ill in one way or another. Her father had held a position under theEnglish Government and had always been busy and ill himself, and her mother hadbeen a great beauty who cared only to go to parties and amuse herself with gaypeople. She had not wanted a little girl at all, and when Mary was born, shehanded her over to the care of an ayah, who was made to understand that if shewished to please the Mem Sahib she must keep the child out of sight as much aspossible.
So when she was a sickly, fretful, uglylittle 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 rememberedseeing familiarly anything but the dark faces of her ayah and the other nativeservants, 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 thetime she was six years old, she was as tyrannical and selfish a little pig asever lived. The young English governess who came to teach her to read and writedisliked her so much that she gave up her place in three months, and when othergovernesses came to try to fill it, they always went away in a shorter timethan the first one. So if Mary had not chosen to really want to know how toread books, she would never have learned her letters at all.
One frightfully hot morning, when she wasabout nine years old, she awakened feeling very cross, and she became crosserstill when she saw that the servant who stood by her bedside was not her ayah.
“Whydid you come?” she said to the strange woman. “I will not let you stay. Send myayah to me.”
The woman looked frightened, but she onlystammered that the ayah could not come and when Mary threw herself into apassion and beat and kicked her, she looked only more frightened and repeatedthat it was not possible for the ayah to come to Missie Sahib.
Chapter 1There’s No One Left
Chapter 2Mistress Mary Quite Contrary
Chapter 3Across the Moor
Chapter 4Martha
Chapter 5The Cry in the Corridor 38
Chapter 6“There Was Some One Crying—There Was”
Chapter 7The Key of the Garden
Chapter 8The Robin Who Showed the Way
Chapter 9The Strangest House
Chapter10 Dickon
Chapter11 The Nest of the Missel Thrush
Chapter12 “Might I Have a Bit of Earth?”
Chapter13 “I Am Colin”
Chapter14 A Young Rajah
Chapter15 Nest Building
Chapter16 “I Won’t!” Said Mary
Chapter17 A Tantrum
Chapter18 “Tha’ Munnot Waste No Time”
Chapter19 “It Has Come!”
Chapter20 “I Shall Live Forever”
Chapter21 Ben Weatherstaff
Chapter22 When the Sun Went Down
Chapter23 Magic
Chapter24 “Let Them Laugh”
Chapter 25The Curtain
Chapter26 “It’s Mother!”
Chapter 27 In the Garden
