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Read “The Secret Garden” by Frances Hodgson Burnett in English. Tap any word for its meaning, hear how it sounds, and save it to a memory-driven review schedule.

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Author
Frances Hodgson Burnett
Level
B2
Chapters
27
Length
~81k words
Reading time
~7 h
Translation
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The Secret GardenFrances Hodgson Burnett · B2
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cherish
verb

TRANSLATION

дорожить, лелеять

to feel warm affection for; to hold something dear.

She cherishes the memory of her grandmother.
Она дорожит памятью о своей бабушке.

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The opening

How “The Secret Garden” begins

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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About the book

Why The Secret Garden is a great book to read in English

Spoiled, lonely Mary Lennox is sent to a Yorkshire manor full of locked doors — and finds a key, a hidden garden, and a cousin everyone pretends does not exist. Burnett's 1911 novel grows from gloom to joy in simple, heartfelt English, with a little Yorkshire dialect as seasoning.

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