A Series of Unfortunate Events #12: The Penultimate Peril

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Harper Collins, Oct 13, 2009 - Juvenile Fiction - 368 pages

NOW A NETFLIX ORIGINAL SERIES

Lemony Snicket returns with the last book before the last book of his bestselling A Series of Unfortunate Events. Scream and run away before the secrets of the series are revealed!

Very little is known about Lemony Snicket and A Series of Unfortunate Events. What we do know is contained in the following brief list:

  • The books have inexplicably sold millions and millions of copies worldwide
  • People in more than 40 countries are consumed by consuming Snicket
  • The movie was as sad as the books, if not more so
  • Like unrefrigerated butter and fungus, the popularity of these books keeps spreading

Even less is known about book the twelfth in this alarming phenomenon. What we do know is contained in the following brief list:

  • In this book, things only get worse
  • Count Olaf is still evil
  • The Baudelaire orphans do not win a contest
  • The title begins with the word ‘The’

Sometimes, ignorance is bliss.

 

Contents

Section 1
1
Section 2
19
Section 3
51
Section 4
75
Section 5
77
Section 6
99
Section 7
123
Section 8
149
Section 10
172
Section 11
175
Section 12
205
Section 13
237
Section 14
265
Section 15
295
Section 16
319
Section 17
357

Section 9
151

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Popular passages

Page 175 - I see," quoth he, "the Elephant Is very like a rope!" And so these men of Indostan Disputed loud and long, Each in his own opinion Exceeding stiff and strong, Though each was partly in the right, And all were in the wrong...
Page 12 - To endure is greater than to dare ; to tire out hostile fortune ; to be daunted by no difficulty ; to keep heart when all have lost it ; to go through intrigue spotless ; and to forego even ambition when the end is gained. Who can say this is not greatness, or show the other Englishman who has achieved so much?" " I wonder, Sir George, you did not take Mr. Washington's side, and wear the blue and buff yourself,
Page 182 - In spite of illness, in spite even of the arch-enemy sorrow, one can remain alive long past the usual date of disintegration if one is unafraid of change, insatiable in intellectual curiosity, interested in big things, and happy in small ways.
Page 78 - YOU DO NOT HAVE TO READ THE CHAPTERS IN THE ORDER IN WHICH THEY ARE PRINTED.
Page 71 - I'm sorry, but I'm going to have to ask you to leave.
Page 10 - I'm not mistaken, you met two of them in the mountains — a man with a beard, but no hair, and a woman with hair, but no beard.

About the author (2009)

Lemony Snicket had an unusual education, which may or may not explain his ability to evade capture. He is the author of the 13 volumes in A Series of Unfortunate Events, several picture books including The Dark, and the books collectively titled All The Wrong Questions.

Brett Helquist's celebrated art has graced books from the charming Bedtime for Bear, which he also wrote, to the New York Times–bestselling A Series of Unfortunate Events by Lemony Snicket to the glorious picture book adaptation of Charles Dickens's A Christmas Carol. He lives with his family in Brooklyn, New York.

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