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The Secret Garden

by Frances Hodgson Burnett

27 chapters · 995 readings · about 56 hours of typing at a gentle pace, whenever you feel like it.

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  1. THERE IS NO ONE LEFT
  2. MISTRESS MARY QUITE CONTRARY
  3. ACROSS THE MOOR
  4. MARTHA
  5. THE CRY IN THE CORRIDOR
  6. "THERE WAS SOMEONE CRYING-THERE WAS!"
  7. THE KEY TO THE GARDEN
  8. THE ROBIN WHO SHOWED THE WAY
  9. THE STRANGEST HOUSE ANYONE EVER LIVED IN
  10. DICKON
  11. THE NEST OF THE MISSEL THRUSH
  12. "MIGHT I HAVE A BIT OF EARTH?"
  13. "I AM COLIN"
  14. A YOUNG RAJAH
  15. NEST BUILDING
  16. "I WON'T!" SAID MARY
  17. A TANTRUM
  18. "THA' MUNNOT WASTE NO TIME"
  19. "IT HAS COME!"
  20. "I SHALL LIVE FOREVER-AND EVER-AND EVER!"
  21. BEN WEATHERSTAFF
  22. WHEN THE SUN WENT DOWN
  23. MAGIC
  24. "LET THEM LAUGH"
  25. THE CURTAIN
  26. "IT'S MOTHER!"
  27. IN THE GARDEN

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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.

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