O Jardim Secreto

by Frances Hodgson Burnett

Após ficar órfã, Mary Lennox vai morar na Inglaterra com seu tio viúvo. A mansão tem quase cem quartos e seu tio se mantém trancado lá. Os jardins que cercam a grande propriedade despertam a curiosidade de Mary. Ao decidir explorá-los, a órfã descobre um jardim secreto, cercado por muros e trancado com uma chave perdida. Com a ajuda de dois companheiros, Mary descobre como trazer o jardim de volta à vida.

Hardcover

About the author

Frances Eliza Hodgson Burnett was a British-American novelist and playwright. She is best known for the three children's novels Little Lord Fauntleroy (1886), A Little Princess (1905), and The Secret Garden (1911).
Frances Eliza Hodgson was born in Cheetham, Manchester, England. After her father died in 1853, when Frances was 4 years old, the family fell on straitened circumstances and in 1865 emigrated to the United States, settling in New Market, Tennessee. Frances began her writing career there at age 19 to help earn money for the family, publishing stories in magazines. In 1870, her mother died. In Knoxville, Tennessee, in 1873 she married Swan M. Burnett, who became a medical doctor. Their first son Lionel was born a year later. The Burnetts lived for two years in Paris, where their second son Vivian was born, before returning to the United States to live in Washington, D.C. Burnett then began to write novels, the first of which (That Lass o' Lowrie's), was published to good reviews. Little Lord Fauntleroy was published in 1886 and made her a popular writer of children's fiction, although her romantic adult novels written in the 1890s were also popular. She wrote and helped to produce stage versions of Little Lord Fauntleroy and A Little Princess.
Beginning in the 1880s, Burnett began to travel to England frequently and in the 1890s bought a home there, where she wrote The Secret Garden. Her elder son, Lionel, died of tuberculosis in 1890, which caused a relapse of the depression she had struggled with for much of her life. She divorced Swan Burnett in 1898, married Stephen Townesend in 1900, and divorced him in 1902. A few years later she settled in Nassau County, New York, where she died in 1924 and is buried in Roslyn Cemetery.
In 1936, a memorial sculpture by Bessie Potter Vonnoh was erected in her honor in Central Park's Conservatory Garden. The statue depicts her two famous Secret Garden characters, Mary and Dickon.

Reviews

[nayane ୨ৎ · Rating 5 out of 5]

A singularidade do mundo do ponto de vista de uma criança.

O clássico francês que tem a mesma leveza de um pacote de suspiros conta com a ranzinzice de uma garotinha solitária, seu tio corcunda e um primo hipocondríaco que encontram na fé (retratada de uma maneira lúdica como magia) e na conexão com a natureza uma brecha para evoluir espiritualmente.

Sentia o livro me assegurando a todo instante que seria uma aventura confortável e mais uma das obras que faria eu me apaixonar mais um pouquinho se possível por narrativas de pequenas pessoas conhecendo o mundo pela primeira vez – crianças!

Sou apenas mais um dos animaizinhos de Dickon, encantada pelo garoto, sua grande família, pelo pântano, pela casa misteriosa e seus grandes jardins que foram palco dessa adorável história 🦊🪹🌲🌺🗝

[Vanessa Clementino · Rating 2 out of 5]

"Muito mais coisas surpreendentes podem acontecer a qualquer pessoa que, quando tem a mente invadida por um pensamento desanimador ou desagradável, consegue se lembrar a tempo e empurá-lo para longe, invocando outro agradável e determinadamente corajoso."
(p. 260)

É uma história muito bonita, que fala sobre amizade e mudança, porém, tinha um potencial muito maior e poderia ser tornar algo bem mais profundo e complexo, mas senti que do meio para o final foi tudo muito apressado e surperficial (levando e conta todo o seu desenvolvimento em potencial anterior) com um interpretação tão ampla/aberta que chega a beirar a quase vazia em sua conclusão (além do obvio esperado)

não deixa de ser uma boa história, mas, um pouco decepcionante por quando mais poderia ser desenvolvido nela

[thayla ৎ · Rating 5 out of 5]

I don’t know how to express, but I feel so connected with books like these, it really makes me feel different, my heart becomes soft and my eyes start bawling… It’s like I was part of the books… I wish I could live in the books, someday…💗

[Renata Vilela Kalil · Rating 4 out of 5]

História agradável, leve e divertida! Bem estilo infantil! 💛💛💛

[Geovanna Vicente · Rating 3 out of 5]

Fofo e legal, é uma leitura para quando vc quer ler algo despretensioso e leve.

[Claudio Kappel]

What a wonderful masterpiece! Full of positive energy and faith. Besides, a true and full description of culture, idioms, spiritual and material facts. Questions may be thought, but answers are given in a discreet and correct way. Sobriety is also a must in this perfect work and book. Sometimes a glass of wine or a draft of beer may change facts and situations. Treatment is also involved as a must. Mary, the main character, is a ten-year-old expert to treat what is so called hysteria. "Shame on you", "wake up and walk out", she would say.
Family is a must in this culture and society. Love and understanding is the answer to all situations and problems. What flowers, a garden, and nature have to do with it? Read and we will see...