Mary Lennox was a bad-tempered, selfish girl. At the age of nine, her parents died
during an epidemic and she was taken to live with her uncle, Mr. Archibald Craven, in Yorkshire, England.
In the beginning, she hated everything about Yorkshire, but with the care and friendliness of the people and animals there, she began to reach out to everyone. However, she found that there seemed to be some sorrowful secrets about her uncle’s house.
First, there was a secret, desolate garden in which her aunt died. Then there was a sick, bedridden boy in the house who turned out to be her cousin. However, with her care and dedication, Mary transformed the secret garden and even her cousin’s health. Finally, when Mr. Craven came home from a long trip in Europe, he found one more secret about the house. But the secret, this time, was an exceptionally cheerful one.


Frances Hodgson Burnett (1849-1924)

Frances Hodgson Burnett’s writing was not well received by the public, until she published Little Lord Fauntleroy (1886), her first children’s book. Her later works including The Secret Garden (1888) and A Little Princess (1909) are what she is best known for today.



一把埋藏於地底的古老鑰匙，打開了塵封以久的秘密花園。

瑪麗的個性驕縱、倔強又任性，對僕人頤指氣使，跟父母彷彿是陌生人。當雙親在一場瘟疫中辭世，瑪麗隻身來到了英格蘭，準備投靠姨丈亞齊伯．克雷文。在克雷文先生的莊園裡，她受到女傭瑪莎的悉心照料，碰到了不苟言笑的園丁班，還結識了熱心的迪肯，漸漸地，瑪麗開始露出笑容，樂於跟人分享心事，更願意主動幫助別人。

瑪麗的改變，帶給這座死氣沉沉的莊園溫暖，而花園中的秘密，半夜男孩的哭泣聲，克雷文先生痛苦的回憶，一切的迷團也隨之慢慢明朗……



作者法蘭西絲．哈吉森．柏納特（Frances Hodgson Burnett, 1849-1924），生平創作豐富，擅長以細膩的手法，描繪出一個個筆下生動活潑的人物。作品多以兒童為主角，其中又以《秘密花園》、《小公爵方特洛伊》(Little Lord Fauntleroy) 與《小公主》(Little Princess) 三本小說最為世人所喜愛。


本書特點
1.Check Up：全書共8章，毎章根據故事內容附有隨文小問〈Check Up〉，幫助理解與複習。
2.文章聽力：收錄專業英語配音員錄製的學習CD，練習聽力，創造英語學習環境。
3.重點單字：根據內文標示重點單字，有IPA音標、詞性與中文解釋。
4.中文翻譯：全文最後附上中文翻譯，搭配閱讀，充分了解文意。
5.Exercises：讀完全部文章後的學習測驗，評量自我實力。

作者簡介：

Andrew Chien

Andrew Chien was born in Taiwan in 1976. He moved to Monterey, California in 1998 and lived there for two and a half years. During this period of time, he earned his MA degree in Chinese/English translation at Monterey Institute of International Studies.

After moving back to Taiwan in 2000, he worked for a local tableware company as an assitant manager and at an American advertising company as an English Copywriter. Since 2003, he has been teaching, writing and translating. When not at work, Andrew enjoys being a traveler and a gourmet.

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