A Series of Unfortunate Events · Book 2
The Reptile Room
- Published
- 1 January 1999
- Pages
- 192
- ISBN-13
- 9780439227452
- Type
- novel
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About this book
The Reptile Room is the second entry, released in 1999, continuing the Baudelaires' shuttle from one disastrous guardian to the next as Count Olaf pursues their inheritance under a new disguise. It runs 192 pages.
Its place in A Series of Unfortunate Events
The Reptile Room is book 2 in the A Series of Unfortunate Events series. It follows The Bad Beginning. It is followed by The Wide Window. 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 9780749746124
- edition · unknown publisher · — · ISBN 9780439227452