The Bad Beginning
- Published
- 30 September 1999
- Pages
- 176
- ISBN-13
- 9781405281782
- Type
- novel
About this book
The Bad Beginning (September 30, 1999) opens A Series of Unfortunate Events, introducing the three Baudelaire orphans -- Violet, Klaus and baby Sunny -- just after the fire that kills their parents and delivers them into the clutches of the scheming Count Olaf. It runs 176 pages.
Key facts about The Bad Beginning
Lemony Snicket wrote The Bad Beginning, a novel on our list. It has been out since 30 September 1999. The book has 176 pages.
We list 1 edition of this novel. Since each edition has its own ISBN, search for 9781405281782 to find the main one.
The Bad Beginning is book 1 of 15 in A Series of Unfortunate Events series. The series has 15 published books. As a result, this is the book to start the series with. The End is the latest book in the series with a full release date, out on 13 October 2006.
Additionally, Lemony Snicket writes All the Wrong Questions as a separate series. Those series sit on our fantasy and young adult mystery shelves. Meanwhile, Why Is This Night Different from All Other Nights? is the latest published Lemony Snicket book on file, from 29 September 2015.
About Lemony Snicket
Lemony Snicket is the name — some would say the pen name, others would say the unfortunate circumstance — under which the American writer Daniel Handler has published A Series of Unfortunate Events, thirteen deliberately, gleefully bleak novels tracing the misfortunes of the orphaned Baudelaire children as they are relentlessly pursued by the treacherous Count Olaf. See every Lemony Snicket book in order.
Its place in A Series of Unfortunate Events
The Bad Beginning is book 1 in the A Series of Unfortunate Events series. It is followed by The Reptile Room. 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 9781405281782