The Secret Garden (Used Hardcover) - Frances Hodgson Burnett, Graham Rust (Illustrator)

Though Frances Hodgson Burnett wrote more than forty books, none remains so popular as her miraculous and magical masterpiece, The Secret Garden. Has any story ever dared to begin by calling its heroine, “the most disagreeable-looking child ever seen” and, just a few sentences later, “as tyrannical and selfish a little pig as ever lived?” Mary Lennox is the “little pig,” sent to Misselthwaite Manor, on the Yorkshire moors, to live with her uncle after her parents die of cholera. There she discovers her sickly cousin Colin, who is equally obnoxious and imperious. Both love no one because they have never been loved. They are the book’s spiritual secret gardens, needing only the right kind of care to bloom into lovely children.

Published 1987 David R. Godine Publishers, 1st U.S. Edition

224 pages

7.25" X 10"

Condition: This book is in Very Good Condition. The pages are clean and unmarked. There is light wear on the edges of the dust cover and a small price tag on the front.