Dear reader, think twice! Perhaps you shouldn't be looking under the cover of a Lemony Snicket book at all. After all, you won't find any happy or carefree stories there. Quite the opposite: you and the young protagonists Violet, Klaus, and Sunny Baudelaire are in for all thirty-three misfortunes. On one unremarkable but very tragic day, the children learn that their parents have perished. There are plenty of people willing to take the orphans in, but the most terrible of them all is the cynical villain Count Olaf. He pursues the Baudelaires wherever they go. Misfortunes rain down on the children's heads like confetti from a popper. And only their strength of spirit and mutual support help Violet, Klaus, and Sunny get out of trouble time and time again.
The dark, humorous stories about the adventures of the Baudelaire children became so popular all over the world that they formed the basis for the film "Lemony Snicket's A Series of Unfortunate Events," starring Jim Carrey, Jude Law, and Meryl Streep. More recently, Netflix produced a series of the same name. The main roles in it were played by Neil Patrick Harris, Malina Weissman, and Louis Hynes.
Author: Lemony Snicket
Illustrations: Brett Helquist
Translation: Natalia Rakhmanova, Nikolai Tikhonov
Pages: 544 (offset). Hardcover
Dimensions: 206x130x29 mm
