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The Secret Garden, a week of sunshine

Author: Frances Hodgson Burnett Year: 1911 Length: 454 characters Difficulty: easy Public domain

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The sun shone down for nearly a week on the secret garden. The Secret Garden was what Mary called it when she was thinking of it. She liked the name, and she liked still more the feeling that when its beautiful old walls shut her in no one knew where she was. It seemed almost like being shut out of the world in some fairy place. The few books she had read and liked had been fairy-story books, and she had read of secret gardens in some of the stories.

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The name of the book is invented inside the story, in this passage, by the child who finds the garden. Burnett was born in Manchester and moved to the United States as a girl, and both countries appear in her work. The novel has been filmed many times since the first version of 1919. Project Gutenberg carries the full text.

About this text

The name of the book is invented inside the story, in this passage, by the child who finds the garden. Burnett was born in Manchester and moved to the United States as a girl, and both countries appear in her work. The novel has been filmed many times since the first version of 1919. Project Gutenberg carries the full text.

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Short sentences with a capitalised name repeated inside them, so Shift work stays regular and predictable.

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