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{{quote|''[[Snicket Warning Label|PLEASE READ SOMETHING ELSE.]]''|Lemony Snicket }}
'''''A Series of Unfortunate Events''''' is a series of [[Black Comedy|darkly humorous]] children's books by Daniel Handler, under the nom de plume Lemony Snicket.
After their parents die in a fire at the family mansion, Violet, Klaus and Sunny Baudelaire are left in the care of Count Olaf, a sinister distant relative who wants his hands on the Baudelaire family fortune, which Violet will inherit when she turns 18.
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For a guide to the copious amounts of literary/historical allusions present in the books, see [https://web.archive.org/web/20061231041332/http://www.quidditch.com/lemony%20snicket.htm here]
== ''A Series of Unfortunate Events'': ==
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== Supplementary materials: ==
* (''The Bad Beginning Rare Edition'')
* ''[[
* (''The Puzzling Puzzles'')
* ''The Beatrice Letters''
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* [[Snicket Warning Label]]
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* [[Abusive Parents]]: Not parents, strictly speaking, but many guardians are thoroughly unsuitable. Count Olaf worst of all.
* [[Adaptational Attractiveness]]: While their appearance outside of illustrations are never really detailed in the books, the movie makes them appear much more "pretty", making Klaus look much older than he probably should, and making him no longer need glasses, which would be a vital plot point in the fourth book.
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{{quote|'''Handler (At a Book Reading at Washington College):''' "Is it so wrong that I wanted to read books where terrible things happened to small children over and over?"}}
* [[Alliterative Name]]: The [[Odd Name Out]] in both sets of triplets: Quigley Quagmire and Dewey Denouement. {{spoiler|Beatrice and Bertrand Baudelaire. Actually, both Beatrice Baudelaires.}} The titles of the first twelve books are alliterative, as well as many, many locations mentioned throughout the books (Lousy Lane, Lake Lachrymose, Finite Forest, Heimlich Hospital, etc.).
* [[All There in the Manual]]: ''[[Lemony Snicket:
* [[Alpha Bitch]]: Carmelita Spats.{{context}}
* [[Alter Ego Acting]]: Daniel Handler and Lemony Snicket -- separate characters in the books themselves.
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* [[Corrupt Corporate Executive]]: Closer to this than [[Corrupt Hick]] is Sir, the amoral, cigar-smoking lumbermill owner who pays his workers in coupons and gives them gum for lunch; in a later appearance, business is bad, as nearby lumber source the Finite Forest is running out of trees.
* [[Covers Always Lie]]: The twelfth book features several sinister-looking figures whom fans thought would be important -- or even specific characters from previous books -- but no corresponding characters appear in the text. Inverted by the British edition of the sixth book, on which the cover gives away the main plot twist.
* [[Media Research Failure]]: A website identified goth-girl fashion icons Emily the Strange and Ruby Gloom as characters; not to mention the numerous pages -- including at least one on this very wiki -- which refer to ''[[
* [[Crapsack World]]: Invoked.
* [[Curse of the Ancients]]: "Blasted furnaces of Hell!"
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* [[Scenery Gorn]]: The ruins of the Baudelaire mansion, and Olaf's house in [[The Film of the Book]].
* [[Scenery Porn]]: All other scenery in the above.
* [[Scrapbook Story]]: ''[[Lemony Snicket:
* [[Screw This, I'm Outta Here]]: {{spoiler|The white-faced women}} fall victim to this in Book the Tenth. Apparently, so do {{spoiler|Fernald and Fiona}} in Book the Twelfth (albeit off-screen).
* [[Self-Induced Allergic Reaction]]: The Baudelaire siblings eat peppermints so they have an excuse to escape from dinner and decode a secret message.
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