A Series of Unfortunate Events · Book 8
The Hostile Hospital
- Published
- 1 January 2001
- Pages
- 263
- ISBN-13
- 9780439455718
- Type
- novel
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About this book
The Hostile Hospital holds the eighth spot in the series, published in 2001, keeping Count Olaf's pursuit of the Baudelaire children's inheritance moving forward under another disguise. It runs 263 pages.
Its place in A Series of Unfortunate Events
The Hostile Hospital is book 8 in the A Series of Unfortunate Events series. It follows The Vile Village. It is followed by The Carnivorous Carnival. 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 9780061550522
- edition · unknown publisher · — · ISBN 9780439455718