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Description

Dear Reader, You are presumably looking at the back of this book, or the end of the end. The end of the end is the best place to begin the end, because if you read the end from the beginning of the beginning of the end to the end of the end of the end, you will arrive at the end of the end... read more

Summary

The End begins with the Baudelaire orphans fleeing the burning Hotel Denouement. After surviving a storm, they find themselves on a coastal shelf of an island inhabited by a mysterious group of people. They are first greeted by a little girl, Friday. Count Olaf, who had previously proclaimed... read more (warning: may contain spoilers)

First Sentence

"If you have ever peeled an onion,then you know that the first thin, papery layer reveals another thin, papery layer, and that layer reveals another, and another, and before you know it you have hundreds of layers all over the kitchen tables and thousands of tears in your eyes, sorry and wishing that you had left the onion alone to wither away on the shelf of the pantry while you went on with your life, even if that meant never again enjoying the complicated snd overwhelming taste of this strange and bitter vegtable."

Series

This is book 13 in the A Series of Unfortunate Events series.

Authors & Contributors

  1. Lemony Snicket (Author)
 

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