English · Beginner
Read The Secret Garden in Englishwith every sentence explained
Frances Hodgson Burnett · 1911
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About the book
The Secret Garden by Frances Hodgson Burnett was first published in 1911. In Passage you read the full text in the original English, marked beginner and filed under children. It runs to about 80,300 words.
A locked door. A buried key. A garden no one has entered for ten years.
Spoiled, sour and sickly, ten-year-old Mary Lennox has never been loved by anyone. When a cholera outbreak leaves her an orphan in India, she is shipped off to Misselthwaite Manor, her reclusive uncle's vast and gloomy house on the Yorkshire moors.
There, with nothing to do and no one to boss around, Mary hears of a walled garden that has been locked up since a tragedy years ago. With the help of a friendly robin, a cheerful maid and her nature-loving brother Dickon, she sets out to find the way in. But who is crying in the far corridors of the house at night?
Frances Hodgson Burnett's 1911 classic is a magical story of friendship, healing and the power of growing things.
- Author
- Frances Hodgson Burnett
- First published
- 1911
- Language
- English
- Level
- Beginner
- Genre
- Children
- Length
- About 80,300 words
How it opens
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.
Reading The Secret Garden in Passage
Passage sets the book as a quiet, paginated reader in English. Read at your own pace, and when a sentence stops you, tap it. You get:
- a natural translation of that exact sentence,
- a short note on the grammar, in plain words,
- the key words, which you can save with the sentence they came from,
- all of it in English, Spanish, French, German, Italian, Turkish or Portuguese, whichever you read best.
It's marked beginner, so it's a good first whole book if you know the basics of English and want something you can finish. The words you save come back later in short review games, so the book keeps teaching after you close it.
