A Series of Unfortunate Events · Book 7
The Vile Village
- Published
- 1 January 2001
- Pages
- 256
- ISBN-13
- 9780439386012
- Type
- novel
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About this book
The Vile Village was published in 2001, the seventh entry, with the Baudelaire orphans' circumstances and the wider VFD mystery continuing to build across the series' cumulative plot. It runs 256 pages.
Its place in A Series of Unfortunate Events
The Vile Village is book 7 in the A Series of Unfortunate Events series. It follows The Ersatz Elevator. It is followed by The Hostile Hospital. 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 9781460755945
- edition · unknown publisher · — · ISBN 9780439386012