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Lemony Snicket is a pen name of American novelist Daniel Handler (born February 28, 1970). Snicket is the author of several children's biographies, serving as the narrator of A Series of Unfortunate Events (his best-known work) and appearing as a character within the series. Because of this, the name Lemony Snicket may refer to both a fictional character and a real person. This article deals primarily with the character.
As a character, Snicket is a harried, troubled writer and researcher falsely accused of felonies and continuously hunted by the police and his enemies, the fire-starting side of the secret organization Volunteer Fire Department (V.F.D.). As a child he was kidnapped and inducted as a "neophyte" into V.F.D., where he was trained in rhetoric and sent on seemingly pointless missions while all connections to his former life, apart from his siblings Jacques and Kit (who were also kidnapped and inducted), were severed. In the organization he met and fell in love with a peer named Beatrice, to whom he eventually became engaged. After a series of unfortunate events (after which the real-world series is in some ways named), he became falsely accused of murder and arson. Eventually the fallacies grew so much that The Daily Punctilio reported his death. Beatrice eventually moved on and married Bertrand Baudelaire, becoming the mother of Violet, Klaus, and Sunny Baudelaire, the protagonists of A Series of Unfortunate Events. Fourteen years thereafter Beatrice and Bertrand were murdered in a house fire, leaving the Baudelaires orphans. Feeling indebted to his former fiancée, Snicket embarks on a quest to chronicle the lives of the Baudelaire children until they become old enough to face the troubles of the world on their own.
Snicket is the subject of a fictional autobiography, Lemony Snicket: The Unauthorized Autobiography (which contains an introduction from a fictionalized version of Daniel Handler). A pamphlet, 13 Shocking Secrets You'll Wish You Never Knew About Lemony Snicket, was released in promotion of The End. Other works by Snicket include The Baby in the Manger, The Composer Is Dead, Horseradish: Bitter Truths You Can't Avoid, The Latke Who Couldn't Stop Screaming, The Lump of Coal, and 13 Words. Snicket is currently writing All the Wrong Questions, a new children's series whose first book Who Could That Be at This Hour was released in October 2012.
The name Lemony Snicket originally came from research for Handler's first book, The Basic Eight. Handler wanted to receive material from organizations that he found "offensive or funny", but did not want to use his real name, and invented "Lemony Snicket" as a pseudonym. The name's similarity to Jiminy Cricket, whom Handler described as "exactly the kind of overly moralistic, cheerful narrator who [sic] I despise", was "likely a Freudian slip". When writing A Series of Unfortunate Events, he and his editor thought that the books should be published under the narrator's name, rather than his. He traces their movements and collects evidence relating to their adventures, but it is possible that he never met Violet, Klaus or Sunny in person. Many fans often identify him, though, as a taxi driver who appeared briefly in The Penultimate Peril, The Reptile Room and The Wide Window. This man is heavily implied to be in the possession of the sugar bowl, a key plot element of the series, after recovering it from the pond within which it had been hidden.
As the series progresses, it becomes increasingly clear that Snicket knew the late Mr. and Mrs. Baudelaire well for many years through their connections to V.F.D.. However, as mentioned in The Hostile Hospital and The End, despite all of Lemony's research and hard work, he still does not know the current location, position or status of the Baudelaire children.
Lemony was recruited by V.F.D. as a child, according to the Little Snicket Lad song. In The Beatrice Letters, his niece, the daughter of Kit Snicket, who is also named Beatrice Baudelaire, mentions that she believes he is a detective of some sort, a reference to his investigations into the case of the Baudelaire children.
Snicket is frequently disparaging of himself; he has described himself as a coward, and at various points in his novels comments that he would not have been as brave as the Baudelaire children had he been in their situation. He also confesses that he has done things that were not noble, most notably the original theft of the sugar bowl from Esmé Squalor. He has also implied that he had a part in the murder of Count Olaf's parents, Olaf being the main antagonist of the series, and that Beatrice was involved as well.
In the narration of the books, Snicket describes doing many unusual things in his free time, including hiding all traces of his actions, locating new hiding places, considering suspicious dishes and researching the perilous lives of the Baudelaire children. He claims to often write himself citations for bravery in an attempt to cheer himself up, but these attempts are always in vain.
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A Series of Unfortunate Events series
Lemony Snicket - The Bad Beginning (read by Tim Curry)
Lemony Snicket - The Reptile Room (read by Tim Curry)
Lemony Snicket - The Wide Window (read by Lemony Snicket)
Lemony Snicket - The Miserable Mill (read by Lemony Snicket)
Lemony Snicket - The Austere Academy (read by Lemony Snicket)
Lemony Snicket - The Ersatz Elevator (read by Tim Curry)
Lemony Snicket - The Vile Village (read by Tim Curry)
Lemony Snicket - The Hostile Hospital (read by Tim Curry)
Lemony Snicket - The Carnivorous Carnival (read by Tim Curry)
Lemony Snicket - The Slippery Slope (read by Tim Curry)
Lemony Snicket - The Grim Grotto (read by Tim Curry)
Lemony Snicket - The Penultimate Peril (read by Tim Curry)
Lemony Snicket - The End (read by Tim Curry)
All the Wrong Questions series
Lemony Snicket - Who Could That Be At This Hour? (read by Liam Aiken)
Lemony Snicket - When Did You See Her Last? (read by Liam Aiken)
Lemony Snicket - Shouldn't You Be In School (read by Liam Aiken)
Lemony Snicket - Why Is This Night Different From All Other Nights (read by Liam Aiken)
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A Series of Unfortunate Events series
http://rapidgator.net/file/d37d635a4073cb25f79095120896f67a/The_Bad_Beginning.rar.html
http://rapidgator.net/file/ce463b85a6cc870addaf9e6b7791a286/The_Reptile_Room.rar.html
http://rapidgator.net/file/91a2055d938241443a50e599f3c522fc/The_Wide_Window.rar.html
http://rapidgator.net/file/b8bbd75b3335da43c8db9de2a683ea98/The_Miserable_Mill.rar.html
http://rapidgator.net/file/ba15bbc0674d56191fd6a2cf9a0ce245/The_Austere_Academy.rar.html
http://rapidgator.net/file/f6dd136a5888dc30610e069aafefd9b0/The_Ersatz_Elevator.rar.html
http://rapidgator.net/file/a8f3cf0e1651519c565d770506c02e41/The_Vile_Village.rar.html
http://rapidgator.net/file/e51972d63e60e230f54cc2a5ef03fca0/The_Hostile_Hospital.rar.html
http://rapidgator.net/file/3538d738a5ac27ce780e08b57d2a5f11/The_Carnivorous_Carnival.rar.html
http://rapidgator.net/file/aea0b1a6fe8d46f3c070842111f31a85/The_Slippery_Slope.rar.html
http://rapidgator.net/file/f502e7f039fc932a21a9dcf11b0ec263/The_Grim_Grotto.rar.html
http://rapidgator.net/file/c03ab935a5a23057123a3a0a037bea5a/The_Penultimate_Peril.rar.html
http://rapidgator.net/file/d464bc06360fb89d6f98445abf9dd60d/The_End.rar.html
All the Wrong Questions series
http://rapidgator.net/file/5e1a42e5893373dbd15b7ab210169d49/Who_Could_That_Be_At_This_Hour.rar.html
http://rapidgator.net/file/e1cf1385067294901332bb9efac896c0/When_Did_You_See_Her_Last.rar.html
http://rapidgator.net/file/2d1abc47688d700813ac9caa006333c6/Shouldnt_You_Be_In_School.rar.html
http://rapidgator.net/file/72e9c1c68b2b59a226bbbcba57d017b8/Why_Is_This_Night_Different_From_All_Other_Nights.rar.html |
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