An edition of The Bad Beginning (1999)

A Series of Unfortunate Events

The Bad Beginning

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An edition of The Bad Beginning (1999)

A Series of Unfortunate Events

The Bad Beginning

First Edition
  • 4.1 (73 ratings) ·
  • 501 Want to read
  • 35 Currently reading
  • 130 Have read

After the sudden death of their parents, the three Baudelaire children must depend on each other and their wits when it turns out that the distant relative who is appointed their guardian is determined to use any means necessary to get their fortune.

Publish Date
Publisher
HarperCollins
Language
English
Pages
162

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Previews available in: Welsh English Spanish French

Edition Availability
Cover of: Y dechreuad drwg
Y dechreuad drwg
2014, Dref Wen
in Welsh
Cover of: The bad beginning
The bad beginning
2010, Egmont
in English
Cover of: Un mal principio (A Series of Unfortunate Events #1)
Un mal principio (A Series of Unfortunate Events #1)
September 7, 2004, Montena, Penguin Random House Grupo Editorial
Paperback in Spanish
Cover of: Un Mal Principio
Un Mal Principio
April 2004, Lectorum Publications
Paperback in Spanish
Cover of: Nés sous une mauvaise étoile
Nés sous une mauvaise étoile
2002, Héritage
in French
Cover of: Nés sous une mauvaise étoile (A Series of Unfortunate Events #1)
Nés sous une mauvaise étoile (A Series of Unfortunate Events #1)
2002, Éditions Héritage
in French
Cover of: The bad beginning
The bad beginning
2001, Egmont Books, Egmont Books Ltd
in English
Cover of: A Series of Unfortunate Events
A Series of Unfortunate Events: The Bad Beginning
1999, HarperCollins
Hardcover in English - First Edition
Cover of: The Bad Beginning
The Bad Beginning: (A Series of Unfortunate Events, #1)
September 30, 1999, HarperCollins Publishers, Scholastic Inc.
Paperback, Hardcover in English
Cover of: The Bad Beginning (A Series of Unfortunate Events, #1)
The Bad Beginning (A Series of Unfortunate Events, #1)
August 25, 1999, HarperCollins Publishers
Library binding in English - 1st ed.

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Edition Notes

Published in
New York
Series
A Series of Unfortunate Events #1
Genre
Juvenile fiction

Classifications

Dewey Decimal Class
[Fic]--dc21
Library of Congress
PZ7.S6795 Bad 1999, PZ7.S6795Bad 1999

Contributors

Illustrator
Brett Helquist

The Physical Object

Format
Hardcover
Pagination
162 p. :
Number of pages
162

ID Numbers

Open Library
OL23243635M
Internet Archive
badbeginning00snic
ISBN 10
0064407667
ISBN 13
9780064407663
LCCN
99014750
Library Thing
1748
Wikidata
Q126698108
Goodreads
297671

Excerpts

If you are interested in stories with happy endings, you would be better off reading some other book. In this book, not only is there no happy ending, there is no happy beginning and very few happy things in the middle. This is because not very many happy things happened in the lives of the three Baudelaire youngsters. Violet, Klaus, and Sunny Baudelaire were intelligent children, and they were charming, and resourceful, and had pleasant facial features, but they were extremely unlucky, and most everything that happened to them was rife with misfortune, misery and despair. I'm sorry to tell you this, but that is how the story goes.
Page 1, added by Alex Voytek.

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