A Series of Unfortunate Events · Book 1
The Bad Beginning
- Published
- 30 September 1999
- Pages
- 176
- ISBN-13
- 9781405281782
- Type
- novel
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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.
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