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Review: A low-key 'Secret Garden' that still blooms

by AP Film Writer
| August 8, 2020 12:03 AM

For more than a century, Frances Hodgson Burnett's “The Secret Garden," first published in 1911, has endured. It remains one of the great classics of children's literature, a book that deftly combines the dreams and nightmares of childhood. Its balance of dark and light, death and rebirth is still powerfully moving in its rare harmony.

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