The Austere Academy
As the three Baudelaire orphans warily approach their new home Prufrock Preparatory School : they can′t help but notice the enormous stone arch bearing the school′s motto Memento Mori or "Remember you will die." This is not a cheerful greeting and certainly marks an inauspicious beginning to a...
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As the three Baudelaire orphans warily approach their new home Prufrock Preparatory School : they can′t help but notice the enormous stone arch bearing the school′s motto Memento Mori or "Remember you will die." This is not a cheerful greeting and certainly marks an inauspicious beginning to a very bleak story just as we have come to expect from Lemony Snickett′s Series of Unfortunate Events, the deliciously morbid set of books that began with The Bad Beginning and only got worse. Ages 10+
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Format: hardcover
ISBN:
9780064408639 (0064408639)
ASIN: 64408639
Publish date: August 8th 2000
Publisher: HarperCollins
Pages no: 221
Edition language: English
Category:
Fantasy,
Young Adult,
Childrens,
Adventure,
Humor,
Literature,
Juvenile,
American,
Middle Grade,
Mystery,
Family
Series: A Series of Unfortunate Events 1 (#5)
❝ Before too long, Violet, Klaus, and Sunny Baudelaire will have so much adversity that being dreadful Carmelita Spats, and if you wanted to give a gold metal to Violet, Klaus and Sunny Baudelaire. it would be for survival in the face of adversity.❞ This one, along with the second book, are my favo...
"Before too long, Violet, Klaus, and Sunny Baudelaire will have so much adversity that being dreadful Carmelita Spats, and if you wanted to give a gold metal to Violet, Klaus and Sunny Baudelaire. it would be for survival in the face of adversity."Along with the second book, this one are my favorite...
The next port of call is Prufrock Preparatory School with its wonderful motto "Memento Mori". Remember you will Die. For me this is definitely the turning point of the books, we meet triplets Isadora and Duncan Quagmire, who tragically lost their brother Quigley and parents in a fire. Sound famili...