A Series of Unfortunate Events · Book 14

The End

by Lemony Snicket

Published
13 October 2006
Pages
368
ISBN-13
9780060296445
Type
novel

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Cover of The End

About this book

The End (October 13, 2006) closes the main thirteen-book sequence, delivering the deliberately ambiguous conclusion to the Baudelaire orphans' story and the VFD mystery that made the series' finale one of the more divisive in middle-grade fiction. It runs 368 pages.

Its place in A Series of Unfortunate Events

The End is book 14 in the A Series of Unfortunate Events series. It follows The Penultimate Peril. It is followed by The Beatrice Letters. 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…

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