A Series of Unfortunate Events · Book 15
The Beatrice Letters
- Published
- 1 January 2006
- Pages
- 72
- ISBN-13
- 9780060586584
- Type
- companion
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About this book
The Beatrice Letters (2006) is a slim epistolary companion, framed as letters between Lemony Snicket and the Baudelaires' mother, meant to be read after finishing The End -- it recontextualizes the series' famously ambiguous ending rather than explaining it outright. It runs 72 pages.
Its place in A Series of Unfortunate Events
The Beatrice Letters is book 15 in the A Series of Unfortunate Events series. It follows The End. 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 9780060586584