A Series of Unfortunate Events · Book 13

The Penultimate Peril

Published
1 January 2005
Pages
353
ISBN-13
9780060296438
Type
novel
Cover of The Penultimate Peril

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.

Key facts about The Penultimate Peril

The Penultimate Peril is a novel by Lemony Snicket. Readers have had it since 2005. It runs to 353 pages.

Our list holds 2 editions of The Penultimate Peril. Since each edition has its own ISBN, search for 9780060296438 to find the main one.

The Penultimate Peril is book 13 of 15 in A Series of Unfortunate Events series. The series has 15 published books. However, the series starts with The Bad Beginning (1999). The End is the latest book in the series with a full release date, out on 13 October 2006.

Additionally, Lemony Snicket writes All the Wrong Questions as a separate series. Those series sit on our fantasy and young adult mystery shelves. Meanwhile, Why Is This Night Different from All Other Nights? is the latest published Lemony Snicket book on file, from 29 September 2015.

About Lemony Snicket

Lemony Snicket is the name — some would say the pen name, others would say the unfortunate circumstance — under which the American writer Daniel Handler has published A Series of Unfortunate Events, thirteen deliberately, gleefully bleak novels tracing the misfortunes of the orphaned Baudelaire children as they are relentlessly pursued by the treacherous Count Olaf. See every Lemony Snicket book in order.

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…

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