5. THE SECRET GARDEN (1911)
5.《秘密花園》(1911)
A novel by Frances Hodgson Burnett "The Secret Garden" depicts the childlike adventures of Mary Lennox, a rich, spoiled, unaffectionate and unwanted British young girl who was abandoned in their house in India. Being left alone she has to live with her uncle in England, the very place where Mary explores the unknown. This girl experiences an irresistible invitation to discover two big secrets in the house where she lives. What lies behind the locked gate? Who weeps behind the locked door? The revelation of these secrets opens up a whole, new and colorful world yet elicits brand new secrets to keep.
弗朗西絲·霍奇森·伯內(nèi)(Frances Hodgson Burnett)的小說《秘密花園》描述了一個名叫瑪麗·倫諾克斯( Mary Lennox)的小女孩的天真冒險。瑪麗是一個被寵壞又缺乏愛心的英國富家小姑娘,她被遺棄在印度的一所房子里,只好去和英格蘭的叔叔同住,卻發(fā)現(xiàn)了一個未知的奇妙之地。這個女孩收到了一個極為誘人的邀請,去發(fā)現(xiàn)她居住的房子里的兩個驚天大秘密。在那扇門之后隱藏著什么?是誰在那扇門背后哭泣?這些秘密被解開之后,一個完整嶄新的多彩世界在等著她,而一個新的秘密也即將開啟。