A Series of Unfortunate Events · Book 13
The Penultimate Peril
- Published
- 1 January 2005
- Pages
- 353
- ISBN-13
- 9780060296438
- Type
- novel
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About this book
The Penultimate Peril holds the twelfth spot in the series, part of the fully serialized plot that builds continuously toward the ambiguous, discussion-generating ending Handler had planned from early on. It runs 353 pages.
Its place in A Series of Unfortunate Events
The Penultimate Peril is book 13 in the A Series of Unfortunate Events series. It follows The Grim Grotto. It is followed by 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 9780061550713
- edition · unknown publisher · — · ISBN 9780060296438