Secret Garden (Bookworms. Oxford English-Chinese Parallel Reader) (Bookworms. Oxford English-Chinese Parallel Reader)

Author: F.H. Burnett
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Publish Date: 2002-01-01
Features: Mary grew up living with her parents in India, but after her parents died of an epidemic, she was sent to live with her uncle in England. The old mansion was quiet, vast, and desolate. Her uncle, grieving the loss of his beloved wife, was melancholic and neglected household chores. Mary heard that there was a secret garden locked by her uncle for ten years, never visited by anyone. Driven by curiosity, Mary found an old key and secretly opened the garden's gate. She also heard strange crying in the yard and followed the sound, discovering that her uncle had a paralyzed son in bed. However, her uncle, afraid of seeing the child and remembering his wife's death during childbirth, kept him locked in the house all day. Mary secretly brought her cousin into the secret garden, and the power of nature helped the cousin stand up. In the end, she won back her father's love.