A Series of Unfortunate Events · Book 9
The Carnivorous Carnival
- Published
- 1 January 2002
- Pages
- 286
- ISBN-13
- 9780439554886
- Type
- novel
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About this book
The Carnivorous Carnival is book 9 of the series, continuing the fully serialized VFD mystery that runs beneath the surface of the Baudelaires' ever-worsening circumstances. It runs 286 pages.
Its place in A Series of Unfortunate Events
The Carnivorous Carnival is book 9 in the A Series of Unfortunate Events series. It follows The Hostile Hospital. It is followed by Lemony Snicket: The Unauthorized Autobiography. 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 9780060087814
- edition · unknown publisher · — · ISBN 9780439554886