“咱俩差不多,”园丁老头本•韦瑟斯达夫对玛丽说,“长得丑,脾气也不好。”
可怜的小女孩玛丽,谁都不要她,都不喜欢她。父母去世后,她就被人从印度送回了英国的约克郡,住在她姨夫的家里。那是一幢旧房子,很大,差不多有上百个房间,可大部分都关得严严实实,还上了锁。玛丽住在那儿,情绪很坏, 她感到厌烦、孤独,只有园丁老头偶尔跟她说说话。
来了一只知更鸟,玛丽望着它飞过了围墙,飞进了一个园子,她听说这个花园已经荒废了十年,门的钥匙也不知哪儿去了。玛丽认识了两个小伙伴:农家小子迪康,他的脸红扑扑的,说话又快又溜;夜里总有奇怪的哭声,那是小少爷科林,他从生下来就病病殃殃,三天两头看医生……玛丽和伙伴们都充满了好奇,他们想知道园子里有什么,竟偶然找到了钥匙,打开了花园的门。此后他们一直辛勤劳动着,沉睡了十年的秘密花园苏醒了,这几个孩子瞒着所有大人,在花园里悄悄酝酿了一个秘密,等待着科林的父亲回家……
Chapter 1 There’s No One Left
Chapter 2 Mistress Mary Quite Contrary
Chapter 3 Across the Moor
Chapter 4 Martha
Chapter 5 The Cry in the Corridor 38
Chapter 6 “There Was Some One Crying—There Was”
Chapter 7 The Key of the Garden
Chapter 8 The Robin Who Showed the Way
Chapter 9 The Strangest House
Chapter 10 Dickon
Chapter 11 The Nest of the Missel Thrush
Chapter 12 “Might I Have a Bit of Earth?”
Chapter 13 “I Am Colin”
Chapter 14 A Young Rajah
Chapter 15 Nest Building
Chapter 16 “I Won’t!” Said Mary
Chapter 17 A Tantrum
Chapter 18 “Tha’ Munnot Waste No Time”
Chapter 19 “It Has Come!”
Chapter 20 “I Shall Live Forever”
Chapter 21 Ben Weatherstaff
Chapter 22 When the Sun Went Down
Chapter 23 Magic
Chapter 24 “Let Them Laugh”
Chapter 25 The Curtain
Chapter 26 “It’s Mother!”
Chapter 27 In the Garden