Frances Hodgson Burnett's The Secret Garden

Frances Hodgson Burnett gained famed not only as an author of social fictions and romances but also for writing the immensely popular children''s novel Little Lord Fauntleroy. She seemed an unlikely candidate to pen a quiet, realistic, and unsentimental paean to disagreeable children and the natural world, which has the power to heal them. But it is precisely these qualities that have garnered The...