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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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{{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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