The Penultimate Peril

Author(s): Lemony Snicket

Junior Readers

From the back cover: Dear Reader, If this is the first book you found while searching for a book to read next, then the first thing you should know is that this next-to-last book is what you should put down first. Sadly, this book presents the next-to-last chronicle of the lives of the Baudelaire orphans, and it is next-to-first in its supply of misery, dispair, and unpleasantness. Probably the next-to-last things you would like to read about are a harpoon gun, a rooftop sunbathing salon, two mysterious initials, three unidentified triplets, a notorious villain, and an unsavory curry. Next-to-last things are the first thing to be avoided, and so allow me to recommend that you put this next-to-last book down first, and find something else to read next at last, such as the next-to-last book in another chronicle, or a chronicle containing other next-to-last things, so that this next-to-last book does not become the last book will read. With all due respect, Lemony Snicket"


Product Information

General Fields

  • : 9780064410151
  • : HarperCollins Publishers
  • : HarperCollins US
  • : 0.422
  • : September 2005
  • : 184mm X 137mm X 33mm
  • : books

Special Fields

  • : illustrations
  • : 823
  • : English
  • : Brett Helquist
  • : Hardback
  • : Lemony Snicket