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.
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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. Violet, Klaus, and Sunny Baudelaire are intelligent children. They are charming, and resourceful, and have pleasant facial features. Unfortunately, they are exceptionally unlucky.
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Un mal principio (A Series of Unfortunate Events #1)
September 7, 2004, Montena, Penguin Random House Grupo Editorial
Paperback
in Spanish
0307209342 9780307209344
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Nés sous une mauvaise étoile (A Series of Unfortunate Events #1)
2002, Éditions Héritage
in French
2762517729 9782762517729
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The Bad Beginning: (A Series of Unfortunate Events, #1)
September 30, 1999, HarperCollins Publishers, Scholastic Inc.
Paperback, Hardcover
in English
0439227585 9780439227582
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The Bad Beginning
1999-08-25, HarperCollins Publishers
Library binding
in English
- 1st ed.
0060283122 9780060283124
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A Series of Unfortunate Events: The Bad Beginning
1999, HarperCollins
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in English
- First Edition
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"If you are interested in stories with happy endings, you would be better off reading some other book."
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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.
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