A Series of Unfortunate Events · Book 5
The Austere Academy
- Published
- 1 January 2000
- Pages
- 235
- ISBN-13
- 9780754078913
- Type
- novel
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About this book
The Austere Academy came out in 2000, book 5 of the series, sending Violet, Klaus and Sunny to yet another disastrous placement while the secret organization VFD's presence in the background keeps deepening. It runs 235 pages.
Its place in A Series of Unfortunate Events
The Austere Academy is book 5 in the A Series of Unfortunate Events series. It follows The Miserable Mill. It is followed by The Ersatz Elevator. See the full A Series of Unfortunate Events reading order.
The three Baudelaire orphans - inventive Violet, bookish Klaus, and biting baby Sunny - lose their parents in a fire and are shuttled from one disastrous guardian to the next, pursued at every turn by the scheming Count Olaf, who wants their inheritance and will adopt any disguise to get it. Narrated in deliberately overwrought, doom-laden prose by the mysterious "Lemony Snicket" (a pseudonym for author Daniel Handler, who also appears as a character investigating a secret organization tangled up in the…
Editions
- edition · unknown publisher · — · ISBN 9780064408639
- edition · unknown publisher · — · ISBN 9780754078913