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The Bad Beginning (A Series of Unfortunate Events, Book 1)
The Bad Beginning (A Series of Unfortunate Events, Book 1)
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Hardcover
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BOOK DETAILS

  • Hardcover
  • Sep.01.1999
  • 9780064407663
  • Harper Collins

Daniel gives an overview of the book:

Imagine tales so terrible that as many as 50 million innocents have been ruined by them—tales so indelibly horrid that the New York Times bestseller list was unable to rid itself of them for seven years. Begin at the beginning—even if it is a bad one—with the first in A Series of Unfortunate Events.
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Imagine tales so terrible that as many as 50 million innocents have been ruined by them—tales so indelibly horrid that the New York Times bestseller list was unable to rid itself of them for seven years. Begin at the beginning—even if it is a bad one—with the first in A Series of Unfortunate Events.

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About Daniel

Daniel Handler is the author of the literary novels The Basic Eight, Watch Your Mouth, and, most recently, Adverbs. Under the name Lemony Snicket he has also written a sequence of books for children, known collectively as A Series of Unfortunate...

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Published Reviews

Dec.13.2007

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Mar.20.2009

What it is: Like Peter and the Wolf, this is a children’s story that also serves as an introduction to the orchestra. Snicket, you may recall, is the author of the bestselling Series of Unfortunate...