The Bad Beginning

novel by Handler

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In Daniel Handler
The first volume, The Bad Beginning (1999), related the travails of three orphaned siblings; it also acquainted readers with Handler’s fondness for naming some characters after past literary luminaries—in this case, Klaus, Sunny, and Violet Baudelaire. The Bad Beginning and subsequent volumes, most of which featured alliterative titles,…
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