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The Wide Window
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A Series of Unfortunate Events: Book 3

The Wide Window (2000) (edit title/settings)

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by Lemony Snicket (Author) (edit contributors)

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Dear Reader,
If you have not read anything about the Baudelaire orphans, then before you read even one more sentence, you should know this: Violet, Klaus, and Sunny are kindhearted and quick-witted, but their lives, I am sorry to say, are filled with bad luck and misery. All of the stories... read more

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The Wide Window is about three orphans named Violet, Klaus, and Sunny Baudelaire. Violet, Klaus, and Sunny are very nice children, but their lives are very unfortunate and are filled with sadness and bad luck. Their story in this book is very sad, just like all of the others.

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The Wide Window is about three orphans named Violet, Klaus, and Sunny Baudelaire. Violet, Klaus, and Sunny are very nice children, but their lives are very unfortunate and are filled with sadness and bad luck. Their story in this book is very sad, just like all of the others.

In this book, the Baudelaires go to another place in order to find a new guardian. They meet their new guardian – Aunt Josephine – who lives at Lake Lachrymose. The children are happy living with Aunt Josephine, but they soon stumble across Count Olaf again. Count Olaf is an evil man who is trying to get his hands on the Baudelaire fortune. Count Olaf disguises himself as a captain (Captain Sham) and pretends to be nice to Aunt Josephine. Aunt Josephine actually buys the act and invites him to dinner. While the children were in their room trying to figure out a plan to convince Aunt Josephine that Captain Sham is really Count Olaf, they heard a loud crash coming from inside the house. When they went inside the library, they saw that the big window was shattered into pieces. Aunt Josephine gave them a clue of where Olaf had hidden her. The children stole a sailboat and went to Curdled Cave to save her. They were on their way back to shore with Aunt Josephine, when the hungry Lachrymose Leeches started swimming towards them. Violet created a distress signal before they get eaten, but unfortunately the person who saw it was Captain Sham. He sailed toward them and pulled the Baudelaires on board his other sailboat, but he pushed Aunt Josephine in the lake to be eaten by the Lachrymose Leeches. In the end, the Baudelaires spoiled Olaf’s evil schemes, but he escaped. Now they have to find another guardian.

Characters/Important People:
*Violet Baudelaire
*Klaus Baudelaire
*Sunny Baudelaire
*Count Olaf/Captain Sham
*Aunt Josephine Anwhistle
- Mr. Poe

Memorable Quote:
"I'm not sure that "The Baudelaires had each other" was the moral of this story, but to the three siblings it was enough. To have each other in the midst of their unfortunate lives felt like having a sailboat in the middle of a hurricane, and to the Baudelaire orphans this felt very fortunate indeed." (Lemony Snicket, Page 214)

Setting/Important Places:
*Damocles Dock
*Lake Lachrymose

Characters edit see section history

  • Mr. Poe: A banker who has the responsibility over the Baudelaire fortune and who has to choose a guardian for the orphans.
  • Violet Baudelaire: Eldest sibling of the Baudelaire orphans. She is a very good inventor. While she is inventing she ties her hair back with a ribbon.She very much shows the meaning of girl power.
  • Klaus Baudelaire: The middle Bauldelaire orphan. Klaus is very intelligent and loves to read books.
  • Sunny Baudelaire: The youngest Baudelaire, a baby girl, she loves to bite things.
  • Aunt Josephine Anwhistle: The Baudelaire children's latest guardian. Josephine loves grammar, and is afraid of almost everything else.
  • Captain Sham: Count Olaf's latest 'transparent' disguise.
  • Count Olaf: The orphans' first guardian who is after their fortune.
  • Larry: The waiter at a restaurant.
  • Ike: Josephine's dead husband, a kind man. He was supposively killed by the Lachrymose Leeches in the lake
  • Beatrice: A woman Snicket had a relationship with. The book is dedicated to her.
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First Sentence edit see section history

If you didn't know much about the Baudelaire orphans, and you saw them sitting on their suitcases at Damocles Dock, you might think that they were bound for an exciting adventure.

Table of Contents edit see section history

This book has thirteen untitled chapters.

Series & Lists edit see section history

This is book 3 of 13 in A Series of Unfortunate Events. (standard series)

Preceded by The Reptile Room, and followed by The Miserable Mill.

This is book 31 of 216 in Whitcoulls Kids' Top 50 (2011). (authoritative list)

Authors & Contributors edit see section history

  1. Lemony Snicket (Author)

Other Contributors:

  1. Brett Helquist (Illustrator)

First Edition edit see section history

Original Language: English
Publisher: HarperCollins
Country: United States
Publication Date: 2000
ISBN: 0-06-440768-3
Page Count: 214

Classification edit see section history

  • Library of Congress: 99-27262
  • Dewey: 813.54

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More Books Like This edit see section history

   
  • The Bad Beginning
  • The Reptile Room
  • The End
  • The Penultimate Peril
  • The Grim Grotto
  • The Austere Academy
  • The Miserable Mill
  • The Ersatz Elevator
  • The Vile Village
  • The Slippery Slope
  • The Hostile Hospital
  • The Carnivorous Carnival

Books with Additional Background Information edit see section history

   
  • The Bad Beginning
  • The Reptile Room

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