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The Reptile Room

71.4% complete
1999
2022
1 time
13 chapters
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Text Copyright © 1999 by Lemony Snicket
For Beatrice -
My love for you shall live forever.
You, however, did not.
The stretch of road that leads out of the city, past Hazy Harbor and into the town of Tedia, is perhaps the most unpleasant in the world.
May contain spoilers
They stood together in the moonlight, and kept waving, even when Bruce shut the doors of the van, even as the van drove past the snake-shaped hedges and down the driveway to Lousy Lane, and even when it turned a corner and disappeared into the dark.
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Added: 01-Aug-2022
Last Updated: 02-Nov-2022

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 25-Aug-1999
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Hardback
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Date Issued:
Cir 25-Aug-1999
Format:
Hardback
Cover Price:
$11.99
Pages*:
190
Read:
Once
Reading(s):
1)   16 Oct 2022 - 28 Oct 2022
Cover Link(s):
Internal ID:
12891
Publisher:
ISBN:
0-064-40767-5
ISBN-13:
978-0-064-40767-0
Printing:
48
Country:
United States
Language:
English
Credits:
Alison Donalty - Cover Design
Brett Helquist - Illustrator
Brett Helquist  - Cover Artist
Margaret Wagner - Typography
Dear Reader,

If you have picked up this book with the hope of finding a simple and cheery tale, I'm afraid you have picked up the wrong book altogether.  The story may seem cheery at first, when the Baudelaire children spend time in the company of some interesting reptiles and a giddy uncle, but don't be fooled.  If you know anything at all about the unlucky Baudelaire children, you already know that even pleasant events lead down the same road to misery.

In fact, within the pages you now hold in your hands, the three siblings endure a car accident, a terrible odor, a deadly serpent, a long knife, a large brass reading lamp, and the re-appearance of a person they'd hoped never to see again.

I am bound to record these tragic events, but you are free to put this book back on the shelf and seek something lighter.

With all due respect,

Lemony Snicket
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Notes and Comments:
First Edition, 1999
Fourty-eighth printing based on the number line

Canada: $16.99
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25-Aug-1999
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Author(s)

 Lemony Snicket
Birth: 28 Feb 1970 San Francisco, California, USA
Notes:
From The Vile Village:

LEMONY SNICKET is the author of quite a few books, all dreadful, and has been accused of many crimes, all falsely.  Until recently, he was living someplace else.

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