If you are interested in stories with happy endings, you would be better off reading some other book. In this book, not only is there no happy ending, there is no happy beginning and very few happy things in the middle. This is because not very many happy things happened in the lives of the three Baudelaire youngsters. Violet, Klaus, and Sunny Baudelaire were intelligent children, and they were charming, and resourceful, and had pleasant facial features, but they were extremely unlucky, and most everything that happened to them was rife with misfortune, misery and despair. I'm sorry to tell you this, but that is how the story goes.
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The bad beginning
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The Baudelaire children, Violet, Klaus and baby Sunny, are exceedingly unlucky. Their parents have been killed, and they are forced to go and stay with their Uncle Olaf. It soon turns out that Olaf has evil plans for the children.
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Un Mal Principio (A Series of Unfortunate Events #1)
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Un mal principio (A Series of Unfortunate Events #1)
September 7, 2004, Montena, Penguin Random House Grupo Editorial
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Nés sous une mauvaise étoile (A Series of Unfortunate Events #1)
2002, Éditions Héritage
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The Bad Beginning: (A Series of Unfortunate Events, #1)
September 30, 1999, HarperCollins Publishers, Scholastic Inc.
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A Series of Unfortunate Events: The Bad Beginning
1999, HarperCollins
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The Bad Beginning (A Series of Unfortunate Events, #1)
August 25, 1999, HarperCollins Publishers
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Originally published: New York: HarperCollins, 1999; London: Egmont Children's, 2001.
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After the sudden death of their parents, the three Baudelaire children must depend on each other and their wits when it turns out that the distant relative who is appointed their guardian is determined to use any means necessary to get their fortune.
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