A Series of Unfortunate Events · Book 6
The Ersatz Elevator
- Published
- 1 January 2001
- Pages
- 259
- ISBN-13
- 9780439402040
- Type
- novel
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About this book
The Ersatz Elevator appeared in 2001, the sixth entry, continuing the series' running joke of titles that promise misery and deliver it, undercut by Snicket's dictionary-nerd wordplay. It runs 259 pages.
Its place in A Series of Unfortunate Events
The Ersatz Elevator is book 6 in the A Series of Unfortunate Events series. It follows The Austere Academy. It is followed by The Vile Village. 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 9781405200516
- edition · unknown publisher · — · ISBN 9780439402040