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by Frances Hodgson Burnett
About 73 pages (21,785 words)
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This story is told from the point of view of an omniscient third party, one who knows everything including the thoughts and feelings of all the characters. The narrator - who is clearly the author - speaks to the reader often, commenting on the character and development of the people in her story. One knows that the narrator is fond of all the principal characters, and especially the children. She is sympathetic to Mary and Colin even when they are at their most horrible, letting us see that they act as they do because they have learned no better.

This story is a pastoral fiction, a work in which country virtues and country people are depicted as more truthful, compassionate and noble than people not in close touch with nature. Nature heals, the author.....

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