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  A Series of Unfortunate Events - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
Snicket often talks about Beatrice, the woman he loved (a reference to Beatrice Portinari, who was unrequitedly loved by the Florentine poet Dante Alighieri and appears as a character in two of his works).
Lemony asked her to marry him; they had known each other in rhetoric class at the V.F.D. headquarters since they were about eleven.
Snicket often uses strange and specific similes, in which an event in the story is described as being like a situation that would rarely occur, though Snicket goes into great detail about it, perhaps describing past experiences of his such as described above.
en.wikipedia.org /wiki/A_Series_of_Unfortunate_Events   (3703 words)

  
 Lemony Snicket - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
Lemony Snicket is a character created by Daniel Handler, and the pen-name under which Handler wrote the book series A Series of Unfortunate Events, which are narrated in the persona of "Snicket".
Snicket's works, in their style and subject matter, bear a striking resemblance to those of writer-illustrator Edward Gorey, who died in 2000.
Lemony Snicket was disguised as a bullfighter when he was captured.
en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Lemony_Snicket   (1128 words)

  
 Weekly Reader Classroom Magazines and Educational Supplements | Kids | Games
Lemony Snicket: Well, I've been trying to chronicle the lives of the Baudelaire orphans as accurately as possible so I do as much research as I can into what happened to them and write it down as faithfully as possible.
Lemony Snicket: If you read any of the books, which I hope you don't, then you know that the chief reason that so many unfortunate things happen to the Baudelaire orphans is because of Count Olaf, the notorious villain.
Lemony Snicket: Well, preliminary studies reveal that The Grim Grotto is probably the most depressing and woeful of the stories yet.
www.weeklyreader.com /kids/grade4/lemony.asp   (427 words)

  
 The Christian Guide to Fantasy - Lemony Snicket
Snicket's books not only excellent in their satire, but excellent and necessary as satire - that is, as something which by ridicule hopefully goads on the objects of that ridicule to rectify their behavior.
Snicket points out by his ridiculing self-absorbed or fearful adults that the very adults who are responsible children may not be acting fully upon their responsibility.
"Lemony Snicket" does mix chores with torturous life threats, and he does display the adult population as either ignorant or evil, but you have to keep in mind that the age of children reading these books is 9 and up.
www.christianfantasy.net /lemonysnicket.html   (2431 words)

  
 CNN.com - Author suggests you read something else - August 8, 2002
Lemony Snicket's "A Series of Unfortunate Events" -- the ongoing story of the Baudelaire orphans, their pursuit by the nefarious Count Olaf, and the bizarre places and people they encounter on the way -- has continued its success in the very competitive children's book marketplace.
And behind the mysterious Snicket is one Daniel Handler, 32, a fiendishly clever author with a taste for Victorian gothic settings, dark comedy and literary references that helps his books appeal to adults as much as children.
Snicket believes he's duty-bound to convey the stories of the Baudelaire orphans, who are pursued by the evil Count Olaf.
archives.cnn.com /2002/SHOWBIZ/books/08/08/lemony.snicket/index.html   (1043 words)

  
 The mysterious Mr. Snicket - Salon   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-12)
Snicket is to autograph each one for eventual distribution to all the children in Canada who simply must have an autographed copy of "A Series of Unfortunate Events," Snicket's mock-Gothic serial novels for children, which now number five, but will number a very unlucky 13 when the series has been completed.
Lemony Snicket is a big star in the United States as well.
In the absence of Lemony, this guy Daniel reads from the Snicket books, plays the accordion and sings a song that just happens to have been written for him by Stephin Merritt of Magnetic Fields, a band that Daniel happens to moonlight for when he isn't busy filling in for that misfortunate flake, Lemony Snicket.
dir.salon.com /mwt/feature/2000/08/17/snicket/index.html   (1013 words)

  
 Kidsreads.com - Lemony Snicket
Lemony Snicket was born before you were, and is likely to die before you as well.
His family has roots in a part of the country which is now underwater, and his childhood was spent in the relative splendor of the Snicket Villa which has since become a factory, a fortress and a pharmacy and is now, alas, someone else's villa.
Snicket was stripped of several awards by the reigning authorities, including Honorable Mention, the Grey Ribbon and First Runner Up.
www.kidsreads.com /authors/au-snicket-lemony.asp   (236 words)

  
 Lemony Snicket   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-12)
In this “autobiography,” fans of Snicket’s series, A Series of Unfortunate Events, (which chronicles the misadventures of the Baudelaire orphans and their attempts to escape Count Olaf, who wants their inheritance) will learn more cryptic details about the elusive Snicket and his connection to—and interest in—the Baudelaires.
Readers unfamiliar with the previously mentioned series will be mightily confused by the contents of Snicket’s autobiography—and some fans may struggle to put the pieces together—but there are snippets of detail here, and many interesting, intriguing letters, photos, and other scrapbook-like ephemera that are fun to look at and often very funny to read.
Snicket really only adds to the mystery, however, and tosses in hints that we can only hope he will deliver on in the rest of the series.
www.be.wednet.edu /ourschools/hs/library/lemony_snicket.htm   (169 words)

  
 Lemony Snicket
Snicket's hometown would not appear to be filled with secrets.
Snicket often communicates with the general public through his representative, Daniel Handler.
Snicket is on tour, you will find the information by clicking here.
www.lemonysnicket.com /author.cfm   (325 words)

  
 Amazon.com: Lemony Snicket: The Unauthorized Autobiography: Books: Lemony Snicket   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-12)
It would seem that Snicket's obituary from the highly unreliable Daily Punctilio (which is reproduced in the book) is premature, and that there will indeed be more installments about the Baudelaires, though nothing is certain in the end and readers are left nearly as in the dark about Snicket as they were at the start.
Lemony Snicket, author of A Series of Unfortunate Events, the purportedly true chronicles of the Baudelaire children, was reported dead today by anonymous and possibly unreliable sources.
Lemony Snicket: The Unauthorized Autobiography by Lemony Snicket
www.amazon.com /Lemony-Snicket-Unauthorized-Autobiography/dp/0060007192   (2131 words)

  
 Time for Kids | Specials | Lemony Snicket, author
Snicket's books because they make them feel like their lives are better than the Baudelaire orphans'.
Snicket writes these books to tell a different story, because there are plenty of books that end happily.
Snicket is putting himself in a great deal of danger, so he hopes he can survive until the 13th book.
www.timeforkids.com /TFK/specials/story/0,6079,249604,00.html   (913 words)

  
 Lemony Snicket review
Lemony Snicket who indeed habitually gives the general population pause as he has a tendency to be quite reclusive in nature and usually hides himself away letting his dear friend and confidant, one Mr.
Snicket has been reputed to be a spy, a famous author, a gad-about-town, a fraud, a sometimes innocent man and most recently the narrator of this video game.
Lemony Snicket’s A Series of Unfortunate Events is one of many in a new “sub genre” of Action/Adventure Games.
www.gameboomers.com /reviews/Ll/Lemonysnicketbyinferno.htm   (2393 words)

  
 Barnes & Noble.com - Lemony Snicket - Books: Meet the Writers
To the uninitiated, his name may sound more like dessert than good reading; but Lemony Snicket (known to communicate through emissary Daniel Handler, shown here) is a star author to readers who are hooked on his gloomy A Series of Unfortunate Events books.
Snicket's wildly popular series featuring the exploits of the unlucky Baudelaire children wraps up with The End -- in which the ill-fated orphans find themselves dealing with more surprises at every turn, bringing them and their fans to the final the solution of a mysterious puzzle.
Snicket representative Daniel Handler returns to adult fiction writing with this collection of interconnected stories about love, lust, and the inevitable miseries they bring.
www.barnesandnoble.com /writers/writer.asp?cid=968086   (476 words)

  
 Lemony Snicket Items Recommendations, Where to Buy, Advice, Top-Rated Gift Ideas - Surprise.com Gifts
My kids absolutely love Lemony Snicket, any time they've got a birthday to go to they always beg me to get Lemony Snicket books for their friends, and their friends always love them too.
Lemony Snicket's A Series of Unfortunate Events: The Trouble Begins Movie Edition Book Set includes the first 3 books in the series: The Bad Beginning...
The Lemony Snicket authored "A Series of Unfortunate Events" follows the unhappy lives of the Baudelaire orphans, Violet, Klaus, and Sunny Baudelaire....
www.surprise.com /children/11_to_13/lemony_snicket_items.cfm   (278 words)

  
 Lemony Snicket - Woeful Webmistress
I think Lemony Snicket's books are so appealing because they appeal to a child's intelligence, instead of being cutesy fantasy stories where everything is perfect all the time.
I also love the fact that the Baudelaire orphans are smart, resourceful and interesting, and the fact that they get along so well with each other and that their difficult experiences make them appreciate and draw close to one another.
Lemony Snicket does a great job of writing witty, smart books for children.
www.lemony-snicket-stuff.com /about_us.html   (406 words)

  
 USATODAY.com - Nick gets sweet on 'Lemony Snicket'   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-12)
Snicket is a costly live-action venture, a departure for Nickelodeon, which usually traffics in animated spinoffs of its TV shows.
The books, written under the Snicket pseudonym, are the brainchild of 32-year-old author Daniel Handler, who's also writing the screenplay.
Snicket traffics in a world in which motorcycles cruise the streets alongside horse-drawn carriages.
www.usatoday.com /life/enter/movies/2002/2002-06-11-lemony-snicket.htm   (459 words)

  
 Amazon.com: Lemony Snicket's A Series of Unfortunate Events (2-Disc Special Collector's Edition): DVD: Brad ...   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-12)
In LEMONY SNICKET’S A SERIES OF UNFORTUNATE EVENTS, after Violet, Klaus, and Sunny Baudelaire's parents perish in a terrible fire, they are placed in the care of their uncle, Count Olaf (Jim Carrey), an evil fiend who is plotting to kill them and seize their fortune.
In Lemony Snicket's world, adults come in two flavors: (a) devious, and (b) well intentioned but frighteningly naive: on the one hand there is the evil Count Olaf (plus henchlings), who will disguise himself as anyone and do anything to get his hands on the Baudelaire orphans' fortune.
Lemony Snicket's A Series of Unfortunate Events, the movie, is an adaptation of the first 3 books in the Lemony Snicket's printed books.
www.amazon.com /Snickets-Unfortunate-2-Disc-Special-Collectors/dp/B0007TKGQW   (3342 words)

  
 Lemony Snicket
Focuses on author Lemony Snicket and his children's series called 'A Series of Unfortunate Events'; Popularity of the books; Snicket's elusive lifestyle; Various characters in his books; His storytelling conventions.
A trade publication piece on Snicket's book series `A Series of Unfortunate Events,' that provides details on the plot of the book titled `The Bad Beginning'; the number of copies that were sold and it compares Snicket's books to the Harry Potter books.
The review section includes a synopsis of Snicket's first book, "The Bad Beginning," that was written by a librarian and includes a list of reviews by children from all over the country.
www.albany.edu /~jj1311/pathfinder.html   (1832 words)

  
 USATODAY.com - Friday the 13th closes the book on Lemony Snicket   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-12)
Snicket, although nearly everyone knows the author's real name is Daniel Handler.
(The Lemony Snicket pen name was invented in the course of research for one of Handler's grown-up novels, when he requested information from right-wing organizations.
By Jeff Chiu, AP Daniel Handler's The End, the finale of Lemony Snicket's A Series of Unfortunate Events, is out Friday the 13th.
www.usatoday.com /life/books/news/2006-10-10-lemony-snicket-main_x.htm   (1486 words)

  
 snicket.shtml   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-12)
Snicket, who is more conventionally known as Daniel Handler, is an absolutley wonderful writer of children's books.
Unlike Harry Potter, Lemony Snicket is clever and original and does not insult your child's intelligence.
Lemony Snicket by Lemony Snicket -- The Unauthorized Biography
www.morrill.org /books/snicket.shtml   (697 words)

  
 Interview with Lemony Snicket
Lemony Snicket's official bio reads "Lemony Snicket was born in a small town where the inhabitants were suspicious and prone to riot.
I assume your name was specifically selected as an homage to Crystal Pie's courageous son, Orangey Snicket, who spent his life trying to clear his good mother's name.
Snicket for the whimsical (and wildly inaccurate work) of this website's research department in regard to your family tree.
www.nancymatson.com /authorinterviews/snicket.htm   (672 words)

  
 USATODAY.com - 'Lemony Snicket': Sweet and sour   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-12)
Lemony Snicket's A Series of Unfortunate Events is a visually arresting and entertaining romp, but it lacks some of the sardonic humor of the popular children's books on which the movie is based.
While Snicket is the book's narrator, the movie occasionally shows Jude Law's Snicket as a shadowy figure typing away.
Snicket opens teasingly as a Disney-style, ultra-sweet children's movie, but it abruptly changes into a Gothic tale of avarice and deception.
www.usatoday.com /life/movies/reviews/2004-12-16-snicket_x.htm   (576 words)

  
 Lemony Snicket - Blighted Blog
Snicket’s books and those who are just curious are invited to attend a macabre little party.
Lemony Snicket will be making a rare appearance to discuss A Series of Unfortunate Events.
Sacbee.com reports that "Daniel Handler is grateful for the relative anonymity afforded him by the Lemony Snicket persona.
www.lemony-snicket-stuff.com /lemony_snicket_unhappy_updates.html   (1610 words)

  
 Book Review:    Lemony Snicket: The Unauthorized Autobiography
This companion volume to the Lemony Snicket A Series of Unfortunate Events book series will delight children (and adult) fans of the wickedly anti-happily-ever-after serial.
Lemony Snicket: The Unauthorized Autobiography is bursting its seams with the kind of tongue-in-cheek humor that its title promises.
Poe as Helpful as He Ought to Be?", and "Why is Lemony Snicket on the Run?) that are crossed off and signed with the initials L.S. (They simply are not the "proper questions").
www.edutainingkids.com /reviews/book_lemony_snicket_autobiography.html   (452 words)

  
 Lemony Snicket's: Unautherized Autobiography * Written by Lemony Snicket   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-12)
Four year old Lemony Snicket was taken by V.F.D. from a farm at midnight.
In the middle it tells about how Beatrice and Lemony Snicket were going to get married when it all broke apart.
I think Lemony Snicket is an interesting character in this book because he tries to puzzle the reader.
www.spaghettibookclub.org /title.php3?grade=&title=Lemony%20Snicket%27s%3A%20Unautherized%20Autobiography   (204 words)

  
 Lemony Snicket
Snicket has spent the last several eras researching the travails of the Baudelaire orphans.
Once you've read Lemony Snicket's A Series of Unfortunate Events, you will know that the Baudelaire orphans are charming but miserable.
Lemony Snicket recommended that instead of moaning about it, you express your grief in a poem.
www.harperchildrens.com /hch/author/author/snicket   (139 words)

  
 Lemony Snicket’s A Series of Unfortunate Events (2004)
While it is my duty to review Lemony Snicket’s A Series of Unfortunate Events, loosely based on the first three volumes of the best-selling series of books for intermediate readers.
Snicket, knows what he is about, there can be no doubt.
The Baudelaire orphans’ surname you may or may not recognize as an allusion to the influential 19th-century French poet Charles Baudelaire, known among other things for his French translations of Edgar Allan Poe; but when the very first scene introduces an old family friend of the Baudelaires who happens to be named Mr.
www.decentfilms.com /sections/reviews/lemonysnicket.html   (1031 words)

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