A Series of Unfortunate Events · Book 3

The Wide Window

by Lemony Snicket

Published
1 January 2000
Pages
214
ISBN-13
9781405266086
Type
novel

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Cover of The Wide Window

About this book

The Wide Window appeared in 2000, book 3 of the series, keeping to Lemony Snicket's overwrought, doom-laden narration as the Baudelaire orphans land with yet another guardian. It runs 214 pages.

Its place in A Series of Unfortunate Events

The Wide Window is book 3 in the A Series of Unfortunate Events series. It follows The Reptile Room. It is followed by The Miserable Mill. 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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