Burnett, Frances Hodgson / Robinson, Charles.

The Secret Garden. Illustrated.

Second edition. Reprinted. London, Book Club Associates, 1976. 13.5 cm x 20.5 cm. Frontispiece, 242 pages. 8 original colour illustrations, including frontispiece, by Charles Robinson. Original Hardcover with original dustjacket in protective collector’s mylar. Near fine condition. Interior in excellent condition throughout.

Includes, for example, the following: There is No One Left / Mistress Mary Quite Contrary / Across the Moor / The Key of the Garden / The Nest of the Missel Thrush / A Young Rajah / A Tantrum / Ben Weatherstaff etc.

The Secret Garden is a novel by Frances Hodgson Burnett first published in book form in 1911, after its serialization in The American Magazine (November 1910 – August 1911). Set in England, it is one of Burnett’s most popular novels and is considered a classic of English children’s literature. Several stage and film adaptations have been made. (Wikipedia)

Marketed to both young and adult readers, The Secret Garden had lukewarm success initially and became little more than a footnote in Burnett’s prolific career; her other novels, such as A Little Princess and Little Lord Fauntleroy, were far more popular at the time of her death in 1924. What probably saved the book from the out-of-print netherworld was the 20th-century rise in children’s literature scholarship, and general attentiveness to literature for children as a distinct genre. That, and the fact that the book’s copyright expired in the US in 1987, and most other places in 1995, opening the way for untold numbers of abridged, unabridged and adapted editions. (‘The Secret Garden’s hidden depths,’ The Guardian)

• Keywords: Catalogue Two – Children’s Books · Children’s Books · Children’s Books Rare · Children’s Literature · English · English Authors · Garden · Illustrated
• Language: English
• Inventory Number: 120329AB

EUR 95,-- 

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