QIs 'The Secret Garden' available to read online?
AYes. The copyright has expired, and The Secret Garden is in the public domain. It can be downloaded free from Project Gutenberg.
ADickon and Mary sneak into Colin's room in the middle of the night to tell him how his mother was killed by a fallen tree limb and how his father afterward tried to chop down the tree. Dickon warns Colin that his father promised to destroy the garden if anyone ever went into it again. Colin promises never to reveal the garden to anyone. As they talk, Sir Archibald enters Colin's room, so Dickon and Mary hide under the bed. Father announces that he's going to take Colin to Italy with him 'for a long time', but Colin refuses to go. The next day, a man from London comes to purchase the house and write out a check for it. When the man mentions the beautiful secret garden that he saw when he climbed up a ladder, Sir Archibald rushes out to the garden where he finds Mary, Dickon, and his son. Colin rises from his wheelchair and walks toward his father while begging him not to hurt the garden. Sir Archibald hugs the children, and the buyer tears up his check.
QIs 'The Secret Garden' based on a book?
AThe Secret Garden is a 1911 novel by English author Frances Hodgson Burnett [1849-1924], published initially in serial format in The American Magazine, starting in the autumn of 1910.The novel has been made into several movies including: The Secret Garden (1919), 'The Secret Garden' (1975 TV series), The Secret Garden (1987), The Secret Garden (1993), and The Secret Garden (1999). It was adapted for this movie by American playwright and screenwriter Robert Ardrey.
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