In English children's literature, The Secret Garden is generally accepted as not only a best selling novel with children's appeal, but also one of the literary classics that could go beyond the boundary of age and pass through the borderline between entertainment and serious literature. As pointed out in the preface to the Oxford edition of The Secret Garden, by the American writer and scholar Alison Lurie , that The Secret Garden involved several important themes in the changing process of western literature from traditionalism to modernism in the 20th century: 1 Concern about the i...

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