Unearthing the Secret Garden
The Plants and Places That Inspired Frances Hodgson Burnett
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“McDowell’s gorgeous book opens an ivy-covered door to new information about one of the world’s most famous authors.”—Angelica Shirley Carpenter, editor of In the Garden
New York Times bestselling author Marta McDowell has revealed the way that plants have stirred some of our most cherished authors, including Beatrix Potter, Emily Dickinson, and Laura Ingalls Wilder. In her latest, she shares a moving account of how gardening deeply inspired Frances Hodgson Burnett, the author of the beloved children's classic The Secret Garden.
In Unearthing The Secret Garden, best-selling author Marta McDowell delves into the professional and gardening life of Frances Hodgson Burnett. McDowell paints an unforgettable portrait of a great artist and reminds us why The Secret Garden continues to touch us after more than a century. This deeply moving book is a must-listen for fans of The Secret Garden and anyone who loves the story behind the story.
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Linda Lear offers the astonishing portrait of an extraordinary woman who gave us some of the most beloved children's books of all time. Beatrix Potter found freedom from her conventional Victorian upbringing in the countryside. Nature inspired her imagination as an artist and scientific illustrator, but "The Tale of Peter Rabbit" brought her fame, financial success, and the promise of happiness when she fell in love with her editor, Norman Warne. After his tragic and untimely death, Potter embraced a new life as the owner of Hill Top Farm in the English Lake District.
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3 out of 5 stars
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Narration is difficult!
- De Grateful Listener SME en 11-12-19
De: Linda Lear
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The Return of the Soldier
- De: Rebecca West
- Narrado por: Nadia May
- Duración: 2 h y 57 m
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General4 out of 5 stars 105
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In this lyrical and poignant story of a wounded man and the three concerned women who seek to heal him, Rebecca West explores the complexity of the mind and its subtle strategies for coping with life's painful realities. Only when Chris has the courage to face one pivotal moment of truth in his married life will he be able to awaken from his boyish fantasy and become, indeed, "every inch a soldier".
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5 out of 5 stars
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a gem
- De beatrice en 09-08-21
De: Rebecca West
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Orlando
- De: Virginia Woolf
- Narrado por: Veronika Hyks
- Duración: 9 h y 32 m
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General4 out of 5 stars 102
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Virginia Woolf's semi-biographical novel, inspired by her life changing love affair with Vita Sackville-West, takes us on an exhilarating, fantastical roller coaster, tracing 400 years of English history, in the company of her shape-shifting, gender-bending, time-travelling hero Orlando, whose inner conflicts and triumphs challenge our preconceptions of the nature of love, the battle of the sexes, posing socal and metaphysical questions including what we now call climate change.
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3 out of 5 stars
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A Strange Inexplicable Tale, Beautifully Narrated.
- De Ilana en 07-24-15
De: Virginia Woolf
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Time Pieces
- A Dublin Memoir
- De: John Banville
- Narrado por: John Lee
- Duración: 4 h y 39 m
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General4.5 out of 5 stars 32
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As much about the life of the city as it is about a life lived, sometimes, in the city, John Banville's "quasi-memoir" is as layered, emotionally rich, witty, and unexpected as any of his novels. Born and bred in a small town a train ride away from Dublin, Banville saw the city as a place of enchantment when he was a child, a birthday treat, the place where his beloved, eccentric aunt lived.
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5 out of 5 stars
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‘loved it!
- De SandyK en 02-24-24
De: John Banville
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Jacob's Room
- De: Virginia Woolf
- Narrado por: Nadia May
- Duración: 6 h y 1 m
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General4 out of 5 stars 92
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Jacob's Room was the first of Virginia Woolf's novels to be published by the Hogarth Press, founded with her husband, Leonard Woolf, in their home at Hogarth House in Richmond in 1917. It is an episodic tale that attempts to evoke the inner life of Jacob Flanders and his social milieu during the first decade-and-a-half of the 20th century.
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4 out of 5 stars
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A good listen
- De Cecilie Malling en 03-21-05
De: Virginia Woolf
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Lark Rise
- De: Flora Thompson
- Narrado por: Karen Cass
- Duración: 9 h y 16 m
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General4 out of 5 stars 65
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Lark Rise is Flora Thompson's childhood memories of a north Oxfordshire village, the people who lived and worked in it, and a way of life that has totally disappeared. The story is built around Laura and her brother Edmund, through whose eyes are seen 'old Sally', whose grandfather built the house she lived in before the enclosure of the heathland, children's games, the interaction of village and gentry, and the way in which the seasons governed life.
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5 out of 5 stars
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A glimpse...
- De Shananiganians en 05-31-20
De: Flora Thompson
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Sanshiro
- Penguin Classics
- De: Natsume Soseki, Haruki Murakami, Jay Rubin
- Narrado por: Andrew Koji
- Duración: 7 h y 54 m
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One of Soseki's most beloved works of fiction, the novel depicts the 23-year-old Sanshiro leaving the sleepy countryside for the first time in his life to experience the constantly moving 'real world' of Tokyo, its women and university. In the subtle tension between our appreciation of Soseki's lively humour and our awareness of Sanshiro's doomed innocence, the novel comes to life. Sanshiro is also penetrating social and cultural commentary.
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3 out of 5 stars
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This story had no point.
- De icelandicponies en 12-30-21
De: Natsume Soseki, y otros
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Good Poems
- Selected and Introduced by Garrison Keillor
- De: Emily Dickinson, Walt Whitman, Robert Frost, y otros
- Narrado por: Garrison Keillor
- Duración: 4 h y 23 m
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General4.5 out of 5 stars 206
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Narración:4 out of 5 stars 167
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Historia4.5 out of 5 stars 156
Good Poems includes poems about lovers, children, failure, everyday life, death, and transcendence. It features the work of classic poets, such as Emily Dickinson, Walt Whitman, and Robert Frost, as well as the work of contemporary greats such as Howard Nemerov, Charles Bukowski, Donald Hall, Billy Collins, Robert Bly, and Sharon Olds Good Poems includes poems about lovers, children, failure, everyday life, death, and transcendence.
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5 out of 5 stars
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Very good, but. . .
- De KSmith en 01-27-11
De: Emily Dickinson, y otros
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Pale Fire
- De: Vladimir Nabokov
- Narrado por: Marc Vietor, Robert Blumenfeld
- Duración: 9 h y 19 m
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General4 out of 5 stars 542
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Narración:4.5 out of 5 stars 457
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A 999 line poem in heroic couplets, divided into 4 cantos, was composed - according to Nabokov's fiction - by John Francis Shade, an obsessively methodical man, during the last 20 days of his life.
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5 out of 5 stars
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An amazing feat for such a unique novel
- De AmazonCustomer en 03-27-12
De: Vladimir Nabokov
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The House of the Seven Gables
- De: Nathaniel Hawthorne
- Narrado por: Anthony Heald
- Duración: 11 h y 6 m
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In a sleepy little New England village stands a dark, weather-beaten, many-gabled house. This brooding mansion is haunted by a centuries-old curse that casts the shadow of ancestral sin upon the last four members of the distinctive Pyncheon family of Salem.
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5 out of 5 stars
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A Classic Thriller
- De E. Pearson en 12-03-10
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Crome Yellow
- De: Aldous Huxley
- Narrado por: Robert Whitfield
- Duración: 5 h y 55 m
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General4 out of 5 stars 170
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Narración:4.5 out of 5 stars 136
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Historia4 out of 5 stars 137
One of the greatest prose writers and social commentators of the 20th century, Aldous Huxley here introduces us to a delightfully cynical, comic, and severe group of artists and intellectuals engaged in the most free-thinking and modern kind of talk imaginable. Poetry, occultism, ancestral history, and Italian primitive painting are just a few of the subjects competing for discussion among the amiable cast of eccentrics drawn together at Crome, an intensely English country manor.
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5 out of 5 stars
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Bloomsbury in a blender, 1922
- De Adeliese Baumann en 01-02-17
De: Aldous Huxley
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The Hero and the Crown
- De: Robin McKinley
- Narrado por: Roslyn Alexander
- Duración: 10 h y 50 m
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Uncertain of the past, Aerin-sol, daughter of King Arlbeth, decides to forge her own future by challenging the lashing tongues of the dragon’s fire. Aerin’s proficiency as "the Dragon-slayer" sets her on a quest for the stolen Crown of Damar, believed to be in the hands of rebellious northerners who threaten to destroy the Damarian people and their home forever.
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5 out of 5 stars
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Second only to Blue Sword
- De mkc en 01-18-13
De: Robin McKinley
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The Backyard Parables
- Lessons on Gardening, and Life
- De: Margaret Roach
- Narrado por: Margaret Roach
- Duración: 8 h y 12 m
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General4 out of 5 stars 47
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Narración:4 out of 5 stars 40
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Margaret Roach has been harvesting 30 years of backyard parables - deceptively simple, instructive stories from a life spent digging ever deeper - and has distilled them in this memoir along with her best tips for garden making, discouraging all manner of animal and insect opponents, at-home pickling, and more. After ruminating on the bigger picture in her memoir And I Shall Have Some Peace There, Margaret Roach has returned to the garden, insisting as ever that we must garden with both our head and heart, or as she expresses it, with "horticultural how-to and woo-woo."
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4 out of 5 stars
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Great Writing Distracting Reading
- De Amazon Customer en 02-11-13
De: Margaret Roach
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Emily of New Moon
- De: L. M. Montgomery
- Narrado por: Amanda Friday, Anna Grace, Merete Mohs, y otros
- Duración: 11 h y 31 m
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General5 out of 5 stars 2
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Narración:4 out of 5 stars 2
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Emily Starr is sent to New Moon Farm on Prince Edward Island following the death of her dear father. She lives with her two aunts and her cousin Jimmy. Emily has a hard time getting along with Aunt Elizabeth but has great plans to become a writer.
De: L. M. Montgomery
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Beatrix Potter: Artist, Storyteller, and Countrywoman
- De: Judy Taylor
- Narrado por: Patricia Routledge
- Duración: 3 h y 8 m
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General4.5 out of 5 stars 52
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Historia4.5 out of 5 stars 44
Starting with the publication of The Tale of Peter Rabbit, in 1902, Beatrix Potter went on to become one of the world’s most successful children’s authors. This biographical audiobook takes the reader through the whole of her life, from her Victorian childhood in London to her final years farming in the Lake District. Regarded as a standard work on Beatrix Potter’s life, this work has been updated regularly to include fresh material that has come to light as interest in Beatrix Potter continues to grow.
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5 out of 5 stars
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Loved it!
- De Kimberly en 06-14-17
De: Judy Taylor
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The Story Girl
- De: L. M. Montgomery
- Narrado por: Anne Cross
- Duración: 10 h y 3 m
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Sara Stanley is only 14, but she can weave tales that are impossible to resist. In the charming town of Carlisle, children and grown-ups alike flock from miles around to hear her spellbinding tales. And when Bev King and his younger brother Felix arrive for the summer, they, too, are captivated by the "Story Girl"....
De: L. M. Montgomery
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The Art of Travel
- De: Alain de Botton
- Narrado por: Nicholas Bell
- Duración: 5 h y 22 m
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Narración:4 out of 5 stars 155
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Historia4 out of 5 stars 155
Aside from love, few actvities seem to promise us as much happiness as going traveling: taking off for somewhere else, somewhere far from home, a place with more interesting weather, customs, and landscapes. But although we are inundated with advice on where to travel, few people seem to talk about why we should go and how we can become more fulfilled by doing so.
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1 out of 5 stars
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Dull, suggestions for better alternatives
- De J. Natael en 08-07-13
De: Alain de Botton
Lo que los oyentes dicen sobre Unearthing the Secret Garden
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- Amy goodman kiefer
- 12-28-21
If 'the secret Garden' inspired you,
If 'the secret Garden' inspired you, I think you will really appreciate this book and it's deep dive into Frances H. Burnett's life and inspirations.!
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