The Secret Garden

1911

Frances Hodgson Burnett's 1911 novel: Mary Lennox, orphaned in India and sent to Misselthwaite Manor on the Yorkshire moors, finds a locked garden, a hidden cousin, and the year that mends all three. The complete novel.

Chapter I There Is No One Left
Chapter II Mistress Mary Quite Contrary
Chapter III Across the Moor
Chapter IV Martha
Chapter V The Cry in the Corridor
Chapter VI “There Was Someone Crying—There Was!”
Chapter VII The Key to the Garden
Chapter VIII The Robin Who Showed the Way
Chapter IX The Strangest House Anyone Ever Lived In
Chapter X Dickon
Chapter XI The Nest of the Missel Thrush
Chapter XII “Might I Have a Bit of Earth?”
Chapter XIII “I Am Colin”
Chapter XIV A Young Rajah
Chapter XV Nest Building
Chapter XVI “I Won’t!” Said Mary
Chapter XVII A Tantrum
Chapter XVIII “Tha’ Munnot Waste No Time”
Chapter XIX “It Has Come!”
Chapter XX “I Shall Live Forever—And Ever—And Ever!”
Chapter XXI Ben Weatherstaff
Chapter XXII When the Sun Went Down
Chapter XXIII Magic
Chapter XXIV “Let Them Laugh”
Chapter XXV The Curtain
Chapter XXVI “It’s Mother!”
Chapter XXVII In the Garden