A Series of Unfortunate Events

Description

After the sudden death of their parents, the three Baudelaire children must depend on each other and their wits when it turns out that the distant relative who is appointed their guardian is determined to use any means necessary to get their fortune.

Excerpt

If you are interested in stories with happy endings, you would be better off reading some other book. In this book, not only is there no happy ending, there is no happy beginning and very few happy things in the middle. This is because not very many happy things happened in the lives of the three Baudelaire youngsters. Violet, Klaus, and Sunny Baudelaire were intelligent children, and they were charming, and resourceful, and had pleasant facial features, but they were extremely unlucky, and most everything that happened to them was rife with misfortune, misery and despair. I'm sorry to tell you this, but that is how the story goes.

Subjects

Genres

• Juvenile fiction

Series Statement

• A Series of Unfortunate Events #1

Other Editions

• A Series of Unfortunate Events: The Bad BeginningHardcoverHarperCollins1999-01-01
• The Bad Beginning (A Series of Unfortunate Events, Book the First)Scholastic Inc.2000-01-01
• Saiaku no hajimari =Sōshisha2001-01-01
• The Bad Beginning (A Series of Unfortunate Events, Book 1)Audio CassetteListening Library (Audio)2001-03-27
• The Bad Beginning (A Series of Unfortunate Events, Book 1)Audio CassetteListening Library2001-03-27
• Bei can de kai shiTian xia yuan jian chu ban gu fen you xian gong si2002-01-01