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The Vile Village

78.6% complete
2001
2024
1 time
Baudelaire, Klaus (Fictitious character) - Juvenile fiction
Baudelaire, Sunny (Fictitious character) - Juvenile fiction
Baudelaire, Violet (Fictitious character) - Juvenile fiction
Brothers and sisters - Fiction
City and town life - Fiction
Humorous stories
Orphans - Fiction
13 chapters
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13356
Copyright © 2001 by Lemony Snicket
For Beatrice -
When we were together I felt breathless.
Now, you are.
No matter who you are, no matter where you live, and no matter how many people are chasing you, what you don't read is often as important as what you do read.
May contain spoilers
Violet, Klaus, and Sunny looked at one another and took a deep breath, gathering up all their courage to face all the bolts from the blue that they guessed - and, I'm sorry to say, guessed correctly - lay ahead of them, and then the self-sustaining Baudelaire orphans took their first steps away from town and towards the last few rays of the setting sun.
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Added: 01-Aug-2022
Last Updated: 19-Apr-2024

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 01-Jan-2001
HarperCollins Children's Books
Hardback
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Date Issued:
Cir 01-Jan-2001
Format:
Hardback
Cover Price:
$10.99
Pages*:
256
Read:
Once
Reading(s):
1)   13 Mar 2024 - 16 Apr 2024
Cover Link(s):
Internal ID:
33393
ISBN:
0-064-40865-5
ISBN-13:
978-0-064-40865-3
Printing:
21
Country:
United States
Language:
English
Credits:
Alison Donalty - Cover Design
Brett Helquist - Illustrator
Brett Helquist  - Cover Artist
Dear Reader,

You have undoubtedly picked up this book by mistake, so please put it down.  Nobody in their right mind would read this particular book about the lives of Violet, Klaus, and Sunny Baudelaire on purpose, because each dismal moment of their stay in the village of V.F.D. has been faithfully and dreadfully recorded in these pages.

I can think of no single reason why anyone would want to open a book containing such unpleasant matters as migrating crows, an angry mob, a newspaper headline, the arrest of innocent people, the Deluxe Cell, and some very strange hats.

It is my solemn and sacred occupation to research each detail of the Baudelaire children's lives and write them all down, but you may prefer to do some other solemn and sacred thing, such as reading another book instead.

With all due respect.

Lemony Snicket


Lemony Snicket
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Notes and Comments:
First Edition, 2001
Canada: $16.99
Twenty-first printing based on the number line
Image File
01-Jan-2001
HarperCollins Children's Books
Hardback

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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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