The Secret Garden (Penguin Classics Deluxe Edition)

Sep 6, 2025 6:56 AM

Author:Frances Hodgson Burnett

Published to coincide with the 2011 centennial of The Secret Garden's publication, this Penguin Threads edition of the classic children's tale includes cover art by Jillian Tamaki and deluxe french flaps. Commissioned by award-winning Penguin art director Paul Buckley, the Penguin Threads series debuts with cover art by Jillian Tamaki for three gift-worthy Penguin Classics. Sketched out in a traditional illustrative manner, then hand stitched using needle and thread, the final covers are sculpt embossed for a tactile, textured, and beautiful book design that will appeal to the Etsy(tm)-loving world of handmade crafts.

Reviews

Néspolo's novel bears comparison with such masters of description of life in the slums as Alexander Baron and Nelson Algren...an excellent adventure story that also documents urban poverty and violence, with faultless dialogue and at breathtaking pace

—— Michael Euade , Independent

First-rate...7 Ways to Kill a Cat is a debut pervaded by a grim rather than magic realism, and the better for it

—— Andrew Rosenheim , Times Literary Supplement

a startlingly strong debut... Tarantino-style fast editing, black humour and sicko-hilarious gun-toting slapstick... A brilliant debut

—— Chris Moss , Time Out

A story as forceful as a bullet. It leaves you breathless. High voltage literature.

—— El Mundo

A brilliant debut

—— Javier Cercas

First-rate

—— Guardian

In a wonderful, lively, insightful and heartbreaking love story, Harper allows Shakespeare's secret wife, Anne Whateley, to narrate her colorful, lusty story. With her sharp eye for detail and dialogue, Harper delivers a tale that resounds with the colour and atmosphere of life in the theatre, London and the intrigues that ran rampant in England

—— Romantic Times

Witty enough to make you laugh out loud, but there are moments of real emotion that keep the book from being too light

—— Psychologies

A superb ear for dialogue...wonderfully comic

—— Evening Standard

Riotously high in laughs and glamour. I defy a festive grump not to be cheered by it

—— Independent Books of the Year

Fast-paced and funny

—— Women & Home

Influenced by magical realism and the cool prose of modernism, first-time author Chloe Aridjis takes the best from each

—— Alastair Mabbott , Herald

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