Binding: Hardcover
Description: ** A NEW YORK Times Bestselling Series** In the tradition of great storytellers from Dickens to Dahl comes an exquisitely dark comedy that is both literary and irreverent hilarious and deftly crafted. Miserably scrawled by Lemony Snicket and respectfully illustrated by Brett Helquist never before has a series of three likeable and unfortunate children been quite so enchanting or quite so uproariously unhappy. Violet Klaus and Sunny Baudelaire are intelligent children. They are charming and resourceful and have pleasant facial features. Unfortunately they are exceptionally unlucky. In what is agreed upon by all to be a very bad beginning to the rest of their lives these three youngsters not only learn that their parents have died and that they've become orphans overnight but also that a one Count Olaf will be their caretaker. Repulsive demanding and downright sinister Count Olaf proves to be as greedy as his eyes are beady (and readers they are beady). With their family fortune on the line the siblings must endure a few terrible things beforewe can only hopemaking it out alive: itchy clothing boiled potatoes shamefully incompetent adults and a wedding that no one wants to attend including the bride. Read nowor forever hold your peace.
Title: A Series Of Unfortunate Events #1: The Bad Beginning
Author(s): Snicket Lemony, Brett Helquist
Publisher: Harpercollins
Barcode: 9780064407663
Pages: 176 Pages
Language: English
Publication Date: 8/25/1999
Series: A Series of Unfortunate Events