SECRET GARDEN



Author:


Frances Hodgson Burnett

First edition:


The Secret Garden, 1909

Main Illustrators:


Kliros Lowry


In short:


At the beginnig of the century, Mary Lennox loses her parents in India. She is then sent to live with her unfriendly uncle Lord Craven in the huge Misselthwaite Manor, Yorkshire. Her miserable life is worsened by the presence of Mrs. Medlock, the severe governess. Hopeless, Mary befriends Dickon and her cousin Colin, and she discovers a secret garden with a high wall that has been locked away from the world since the death of her aunt years ago. And Mary, our lonely child, finds solace in this long-forgotten garden.


Selection of edition:


The Secret Garden, illustrated by Thea Kliros, Dover Classics, 1996.
Secret Garden, illustrated by Tasha Tudor, Harpercollins, 1987.
Secret Garden, illustrated by Louis Lowry, Bantam Classics.
Le Jardin secret, illustrated by Véronique Cau, Rouge et Or, 1989.
Le jardin secret, illustrated by Rozier-Gaudriault, Gallimard, 1992.
Le jardin secret, illustarted by Avraham Moshnyaguer, Casterman, 1994.


Adaptations:


Secret Graden, an American film by Agnieszka Holland, 1993.