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The Miserable Mill
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The Miserable Mill

Series of Unfortunate Events Series

Author: Lemony Snicket

Illustrator: Brett Helquist

Book 4 in the Series of Unfortunate Events series

Pages: 194

Published: 2000

Age: 9+

Dear Reader,

I hope, for your sake, that you have not choosen to read this book because you are in the mood for a pleasant experience. If this is the case, I advise you to choose something else to read this minute. Of all the books describing the unhappy lives of the Baudelaire orphans, 'The Miserable Mill' might be the unhappiest yet. Violet, Klaus, and Sunny Baudeliare are sent to Paltryville to work in a lumbermill, and they find disaster and misfortune luring behing every log.

The pages of this book, I'm sorry to inform you, contain such unpeasantries as a giant pincher machine, a bad casserole, a man with a cloud of smoke where his head should be, a hypnotist, a terrible accident resulting in injury, and coupons.

I have promised to write down the entire history of these three poor children, but you have not, so if you prefer stories that are more heartwarming, please feel free to make another selection.

With all due respect,

Lemony Snicket

About the Series of Unfortunate Events Series

Books in series order

  1. 1.The Bad Beginning: Or, Orphans!(1999)
  2. 2.The Reptile Room: Or, Murder!(1999)
  3. 3.The Wide Window: Or, Disappearance!(2000)
  4. 4.The Miserable Mill(2000)
  5. 5.The Austere Academy(2000)
  6. 6.The Ersatz Elevator(2001)
  7. 7.The Vile Village(2001)
  8. 8.The Hostile Hospital(2001)
  9. 9.The Carnivorous Carnival(2002)
  10. 10.The Slippery Slope(2003)
  11. 11.The Grim Grotto(2004)
  12. 12.The Penultimate Peril(2005)
  13. 13.The End(2006)

Reading age: 9+ years

This series should be read in order.

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Imagine tales so terrible that as many as fifty million innocents have been ruined by them - tales so indelibly horrid that the New York Times bestseller list has been unable to rid itself of them for seven years...

This darkly humorous adventure series tells the miserable tale of the ill-fated Baudelaire siblings and their menacing relative Count Olaf. When the children receive the terrible news that their parents have died and their home has been burned to the ground, Violet, Klaus and Sunny are shipped off to live with a distant relative - the greedy and revolting Count Olaf - whose only interest lies in wheedling the poor children out of their substanial inheritance.

But unbeknowst to the conniving Count, these children are not so easily thwarted. Violet is one of the greatest inventors of her time, Klaus is a bookish-type with immense general knowledge and little Sunny possesses four razor-sharp teeth which she will not hesitate to use if threatened. The despicable Count has met his match with these three orphans! Read on if you dare...