美国女作家弗兰西斯·H·伯内特的《秘密花园》 （The SecretGarden），是一部百年来畅销不衰的经典 ，它被一代代孩子们不断重复阅读，是很多人童年时代记忆最深刻的一本书。故事主要讲述了一个在 中失去父母的 ，搬到英国后重新获得幸福生活的故事。一场霍乱使性情怪戾的玛丽成了孤儿，她只得被送往远在英国约克郡的密素斯特庄园和姨父克莱文先生一起生活。克莱文先生伤心妻子之死，变得阴郁古怪消沉遁世，他的庄园里有上百间被锁闭的房间，有十年不许 进入的秘密花园。玛丽意外地在 的帮助下找到这个秘密花园的大门和钥匙，并且，她还听到了一个神秘的哭声，吸引着她去之谜。
玛丽在迪肯的帮助下，使荒芜的花园重现生机。不久，被认为离死不远的庄园小主人科林也参与了进来。大自然的力量改变了一切，长年笼罩在阴霾之下的古老庄园及其主人也一同获得了新生。
The Secret Garden is anovel by Frances Hodgson Burnett. It was first published in its entirety in1911. It is now one of Burnett's most popular novels, and is considered to be aclassic of English children's literature. Several stage and film adaptationshave been produced.
This book bringstogether the three lonely children: Mary, who has no close family and is notfond of people; Colin, who is so full of hatred, self-pity and anger, and whois not even sure whether his father loves him, but is certain that he is goingto die; and Dickon, who although constantly has a bright and sunny disposition,prefers the company of animals to people, until he meets Mary.
The Secret Garden is charming and wonderfully written, full of the rightamount of intrigue for children. It is considered to be the epitome ofchildren’s literature, it is still read and loved by many children today, eventhough it’s over 100 years old.
◎美国儿童文学作家伯内特夫人*负盛名的作品，畅销一百多年的世界经典儿童小说。
◎无年龄的全民阅读英文读物，所有儿童小说书目都在推荐，讲述大自然的秘密魔法，读过的人获益一生。
◎收入《牛津世界经典丛书》《企鹅二十世纪经典丛书》，影响了两位诺贝尔文学奖得主T.S.艾略特和D.H.劳伦斯的写作。
◎英国人*喜爱看的100部书之一，英语国家陶冶子女情操的读物，欧美各国将其列入英语教材。
◎治愈系，大自然的魔法故事，每个人心中都有一座秘密花园，跳跃着心灵成长的力量
◎英文原版，原汁原味，英文学习者的美文阅读，提升英文水平！
Chapter 1
There’s No One Left
When Mary Lennox was sent to MisselthwaiteManor to live with her uncle, everybody said she was the mostdisagreeable-looking child ever seen. It was true, too. She had a little thinface and a little thin body, thin light hair and a sour expression. Her hairwas yellow, and her face was yellow because she had been born in India and hadalways been ill in one way or another. Her father had held a position under theEnglish Government and had always been busy and ill himself, and her mother hadbeen a great beauty who cared only to go to parties and amuse herself with gaypeople. She had not wanted a little girl at all, and when Mary was born, shehanded her over to the care of an ayah, who was made to understand that if shewished to please the Mem Sahib she must keep the child out of sight as much aspossible.
So when she was a sickly, fretful, uglylittle baby, she was kept out of the way, and when she became a sickly,fretful, toddling thing, she was kept out of the way also. She never rememberedseeing familiarly anything but the dark faces of her ayah and the other nativeservants, and as they always obeyed her and gave her her own way in everything,because the Mem Sahib would be angry if she was disturbed by her crying. By thetime she was six years old, she was as tyrannical and selfish a little pig asever lived. The young English governess who came to teach her to read and writedisliked her so much that she gave up her place in three months, and when othergovernesses came to try to fill it, they always went away in a shorter timethan the first one. So if Mary had not chosen to really want to know how toread books, she would never have learned her letters at all.
One frightfully hot morning, when she wasabout nine years old, she awakened feeling very cross, and she became crosserstill when she saw that the servant who stood by her bedside was not her ayah.
“Whydid you come?” she said to the strange woman. “I will not let you stay. Send myayah to me.”
The woman looked frightened, but she onlystammered that the ayah could not come and when Mary threw herself into apassion and beat and kicked her, she looked only more frightened and repeatedthat it was not possible for the ayah to come to Missie Sahib.
Chapter 1There’s No One Left
Chapter 2Mistress Mary Quite Contrary
Chapter 3Across the Moor
Chapter 4Martha
Chapter 5The Cry in the Corridor 38
Chapter 6“There Was Some One Crying—There Was”
Chapter 7The Key of the Garden
Chapter 8The Robin Who Showed the Way
Chapter 9The Strangest House
Chapter10 Dickon
Chapter11 The Nest of the Missel Thrush
Chapter12 “Might I Have a Bit of Earth?”
Chapter13 “I Am Colin”
Chapter14 A Young Rajah
Chapter15 Nest Building
Chapter16 “I Won’t!” Said Mary
Chapter17 A Tantrum
Chapter18 “Tha’ Munnot Waste No Time”
Chapter19 “It Has Come!”
Chapter20 “I Shall Live Forever”
Chapter21 Ben Weatherstaff
Chapter22 When the Sun Went Down
Chapter23 Magic
Chapter24 “Let Them Laugh”
Chapter 25The Curtain
Chapter26 “It’s Mother!”
Chapter 27 In the Garden
