The bad beginning7/1/2023 ![]() ![]() The author uses formal, Latinate language and intrusive commentary to hilarious effect, even for readers unfamiliar with the literary conventions he parodies. But by using their individual gifts (Violet's for inventing, Klaus's for reading and researching and baby Sunny's for biting) the three enterprising children thwart the Count's plan-for now. Poe (with a son, Edgar), ignores whatever the children have to say and their new guardian, Count Olaf, is determined to get his hands on the Baudelaire fortune. From the first, things look unfortunate indeed for the trio: a fire destroys their home, killing their parents along with it the executor of their parents' estate, the obtuse Mr. ""If you are interested in stories with happy endings, you would be better off reading some other book."" So cautions Snicket, the exceedingly well-mannered narrator of these two witty mock-gothic novels featuring the misadventures of 14-year-old Violet, 12-year-old Klaus and infant Sunny Baudelaire. ![]()
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