Lemony Snicket Complete Lot All 13 Series of Unfortunate Events Hardcovers

Description: A Series of Unfortunate EventsAll 13 Hardcoversby Lemony SnicketThis is a lot of all 13 novels in the series. Included are:1. The Bad Beginning (1999)2. The Reptile Room (1999)3. The Wide Window (1999)4. The Miserable Mill (1999)5. The Austere Academy (2000)6. The Ersatz Elevator (2001)7. The Vile Village (2001)8. The Hostile Hospital (2001)9. The Carnivorous Carnival (2002)10. The Slippery Slope (2003)11. The Grim Grotto (2004)12. The Penultimate Peril (2005)13. The End (2006)The books are all used hardcover books in good or better condition. All have pictorial covers and were published without dust jackets. There are no marks except for a name in the front of one book. There are no page corner folds. About the books: ==================================================================================This article is licensed under the GNU Free Documentation License. It uses material from the Wikipedia article "A Series of Unfortunate Events".A Series of Unfortunate Events is a children's book series of thirteen novels written by Daniel Handler under the pseudonym of Lemony Snicket, and illustrated by Brett Helquist. It is about the adventures of three children, the Baudelaire orphans, after the death of their parents in a fire. The setting of the series is anachronistic, and throughout the series there are many literary and cultural allusions.Plot summary The series follows the adventures of three siblings, Violet, Klaus and Sunny Baudelaire, after their parents were killed in a fire at the family mansion. In The Bad Beginning, they briefly live with a friend of their parents, Mr. Poe, who is the person in charge of the Baudelaire fortune after the Baudelaire parents' deaths, before being sent to live with Count Olaf, who is supposedly either the siblings' third cousin four times removed, or their fourth cousin three times removed. The siblings discover that he intends to get his hands on the Baudelaire fortune, which awaits Violet when she turns eighteen. In the first seven books, Olaf follows the children wherever they go in a disguise so he can get closer to the orphans and steal their fortune. Their roles switch in the eighth through twelfth books, in which the orphans adopt disguises while on the run. The Baudelaires routinely try to get help from Mr. Poe, but Poe is always either busy with work, oblivious to the danger Olaf poses or unaware that the disguised Olaf is not who he claims to be.Each of the three siblings have a distinctive skill that often helps them during their adventures. Violet is always inventing new things to help them, Klaus is always finding out new information through his research, and Sunny has extremely sharp teeth that can bite almost anything in two. In later books, Sunny learns how to cook, as she begins to grow to the normal size for her teeth so cooking becomes her primary skill. Sunny originally spoke in single word utterances which are often a variety of incomplete sentences, and some short word sentences as well. Their meaning is either disguised by being spelled phonetically (e.g., 'surchmi' in The Slippery Slope), backwards (e.g., 'edasurc' [crusade] in The Carnivorous Carnival) through cultural references (Sunny says: 'Matahari', followed by a definition of 'If I stay, I can spy on them and find out.'), or being written in other languages (e.g., Shalom or Sayonara), but eventually she begins to speak more in complete English sentences, possibly her first being "I'm not a baby.", in The Slippery Slope, or "Like me" in The Vile Village.SettingThe books seem to be set in an alternate, "timeless" version of Earth with stylistic similarities to both the 19th century and the 1930s, though with contemporary, and seemingly anachronistic scientific knowledge. One example of this "technological disconnect" is documented in The Hostile Hospital, where the Baudelaire children send a message via Morse code on a telegraph, yet in the Last Chance General Store, there is fiber-optic cable for sale.[11] An "advanced computer" appears in The Austere Academy, which, while outdated by current sTandards, is nonetheless more advanced than the earliest computers. The setting of the world has been compared to Edward Scissorhands in that it is "suburban gothic". Although the film version sets the Baudelaires' mansion in the city of Boston, Massachusetts, real places rarely appear in the books, although many are mentioned. For example, in The Reptile Room, Uncle Monty and the Baudelaires plan a trip to Peru; there are also references to the fictional nobility of North American regions, specifically the Duchess of Winnipeg and the King of Arizona. A book in Jerome and Esmé Squalor's library was titled Trout, In France They're Out.Recurring themes and conceptsThe majority of the books in A Series of Unfortunate Events pick up from the last, finding the three orphans in a new predicament, in a new location, with a new guardian who has a literary name. The location of each book's critical events is usually identified in the book's title. Handler often works the siblings' respective skills into the story line. Violet always has something to invent, Klaus always finds a library to do research in, and in the early books, Sunny always finds something to chew on or, in later books cook, as she begins to grow into her teeth and develops culinary skills.================================================================================== Shipping to U.S. addresses will by Media Mail (upgrade to Priority Mail available upon request and payment of extra cost). 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