What are the settings in 'A Series of Unfortunate Events'?

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The time zone is another dimension, where present technology is among late-nineteenth century technology. "The Bad Beginning" - A dull and dreary city where the Baudelaire orphans used to live in their mansion with their parents. A run-down house with their new guardian, Count Olaf. "The Reptile Room" - Uncle Monty's home and his Reptile Room, down Lousy Lane near a horseradish factory. "The Wide Window" - Aunt Josephine's home, on stilts, hanging over Lake Lachrymose, and near Damocles Dock. Curdled Cave, a creepy cave with jagged rocks that is for sale. Lake Lachrymose, where the deadly Lachrymose Leeches thrive. The Anxious Clown Restaurant, where unnerving food is served -- a word which here means "creepy food that only Count Olaf would enjoy" -- and is located near Damocles Dock. "The Miserable Mill"- a lumber mill where the Baudelaires go to work in the town of Paltryville "The Austere Academy"-Prufrock Preparatory School "The Ersatz Elevator"- a penthouse apartment in the Baudelaire's hometown "The Vile Village"-A village called the Village of Fowl Devotees "The Hostile Hospital"-Heimlich Hospital, and also the Last Chance General Store at the beginning of the book "The Carnivorous Carnival"-Caligari Carnival "The Slippery Slope"-The Mortmain Mountains "The Grim Grotto"-The Queequeg submarine "The Penultimate Peril"- Hotel Denouement "The End"-A mysterious island Books UK cover of The Grim Grotto

The series includes thirteen main books as follows:[23] * The Bad Beginning (1999) * The Reptile Room (1999) * The Wide Window (2000) * The Miserable Mill (2000) * The Austere Academy (2000) * The Ersatz Elevator (2001) * The Vile Village (2001) * The Hostile Hospital (2001) * The Carnivorous Carnival (2002) * The Slippery Slope (2003) * The Grim Grotto (2004) * The Penultimate Peril (2005) * The End (2006) There are books that accompany the series, such as The Beatrice Letters,[24] Lemony Snicket: The Unauthorized Autobiography,[25] and The Puzzling Puzzles;[26] journals The Blank Book[27] and The Notorious Notations;[28] and short materials such as The Dismal Dinner and 13 Shocking Secrets You'll Wish You Never Knew About Lemony Snicket. The books were at one point published at the rate of three or four books per year.[8] The endpapers were "designed in a suitably Victorian style", with cloth binding on the spines matching the colours of the cover. A paperback release of the full series, featuring restyled covers, new illustrations and a serial supplement entitled The Cornucopian Cavalcade is in progress, with The Bad Beginning or, Orphans!, The Reptile Room or, Murder!, and The Wide Window or, Disappearance! currently published.[29] Humorous quotes from the series were used in a book published under the Snicket name, Horseradish: Bitter Truths You Can't Avoid.[30] In an interview with the 667 Dark Avenue fansite, Daniel Handler alluded to more Lemony Snicket books focused on the world of A Series of Unfortunate Events.[31] Every book's dedication is to a woman named Beatrice, who is supposedly the dead beloved of Lemony Snicket, who married another and died before the events of the books, though there have been several speculations about Beatrice's real identity (which is heavily hinted at in the final book). Every book in the main series has a clue in a form of a picture about the next book at the end of the book that can be seen before the letters to the editor. At the end of "Chapter Fourteen", however, a shape of a question mark is seen in the picture (possibly the Great Unknown from books 11 and 13). == Cover of the Tragic Treasury, a collection of songs related to A Series of Unfortunate Events

Most of the series of unabridged audio books are read by actor Tim Curry, though Handler as Lemony Snicket reads books 3 to 5. Of narrating the audio books, Handler has said: "It was very, very hard. It was unbelievably arduous. It was the worst kind of arduous."[32] As such, future narrating duties were handed back to Curry, of whom Handler states: "he does a splendid job".[32] The "Dear Reader" blurb is usually read by Handler (as Snicket) at the beginning, although it is missing in The Hostile Hospital. Handler usually reads the 'To my Kind Editor' blurb about the next book at the end. Starting at 'The Carnivourous Carnival' there is another actor who replaces Handler in reading the two blurbs, although they are skipped entirely in The Grim Grotto. All of the recordings include a loosely related song by The Gothic Archies, a novelty band, featuring lyrics by Handler's Magnetic Fields bandmate Stephin Merritt.[33] == Main article: The Tragic Treasury: Songs from A Series of Unfortunate Events In October 2006, The Tragic Treasury: Songs from A Series of Unfortunate Events by The Gothic Archies was released. The album is a collection of thirteen songs written and performed by Stephin Merritt (of The Magnetic Fields), each one originally appearing on one of the corresponding thirteen audiobooks of the series. Two bonus songs are included.[33] Main article: Lemony Snicket's A Series of Unfortunate Events The film is an adaptation of the book, like for instance the changing round of sequences.Lemony Snicket's A Series of Unfortunate Events, based on the first three books, was released on December 17, 2004.[1] Directed by Brad Silberling, it stars Jim Carrey as Count Olaf, Meryl Streep as Aunt Josephine, Billy Connolly as Uncle Monty, Emily Browning as Violet, Liam Aiken as Klaus, Timothy Spall as Mr. Poe, and Jude Law as the voice of Lemony Snicket.[34] The film tie-in editions of the novels feature a variation on the usual reverse-psychology blurb: the blurb takes the form of a message from Count Olaf, listing the good points of the story (such as "a dashing count") but suggesting that it would be much easier and less boring to watch the movie instead.[35] Considering the success of the movie, the director and some of the lead actors hinted that they are keen on making a sequel, but no one has written a script as of yet. When I took the decision to take the movie I said I'd obviously do it with the right to refusal, I'm not going to give in to anything. I asked the studio how they were going to deal with the sequel. But they didn't want to talk about it until the first film was out. It's amazing; a script has not yet been worked on for the sequel, which I find a bit baffling.

-Brad Silberling, [36] Browning has said that further films would have to be produced quickly, as the children do not age much throughout the book series.[37] Violet and Klaus both have a birthday in the series (Klaus turn 13 in The Vile Villageand Violet turns 15 in The Grim Grotto), Sunny becomes a toddler, and in Chapter Fourteen, the children have been castaways for exactly a year. All in all, the children can appear, at most, two years older than they were in The Bad Beginning. Daniel Handler has stated in a Bookslut Interview that another Film is in the works, but has been delayed by corporate shake-ups at Paramount. The film takes place in and around Boston, Massachusetts: The envelope at the end of the film is addressed to Boston, Mass.[38] Perhaps incidentally, Viacom, Paramount's parent, owned two TV stations in Boston at the time of the film's release: CBS affiliate WBZ-TV, and UPN affiliate WSBK-TV (they are now owned by CBS Corporation). The film's plot, because based upon only the first three novels in the series, hugely varied from the books, with a fast resolution, which also varies from the books. Unfortunately, the film only generally follows the plot line of the books. Main article: Lemony Snicket's A Series of Unfortunate Events (video game) A video game based on the books and film (more so the film, as the name and many plot elements seen in the movie but not the book are seen) was released in 2004 by Adrenium Games and Activision for the PlayStation 2, GameCube, [[Xbox 9900 Game Boy Advance, and the PC as Lemony Snicket's A Series of Unfortunate Events. The player plays as all three orphans at points in the game, and encounters characters such as Mr. Poe, Uncle Monty and Aunt Josephine, along with villains such as Count Olaf, the hook-handed man, the white-faced women, and the bald-headed man.[2] A board game based on the books was distributed by Mattel in 2004, prior to the movie. "The Perilous Parlor Game" is for 2-4 players, ages 8 and up. One player assumes the role of Count Olaf, and the other players play the Baudelaire children. Count Olaf's objective in the game is to eliminate the guardian, while the children try to keep the guardian alive. The game employs Clever Cards, Tragedy Cards, Secret Passage Tiles, and Disguise Tiles in play. "The Catastrophic Card Game" is the second game based on the books. In this card game, players are looking to complete sets of characters. There are 4 different sets: The Baudelaire Orphans, Count Olaf in Disguise, Olaf's Henchmen and the Orphans Confidants. Players take turns drawing a card from either the draw pile or the top card from the discard pile in hopes of completing their sets. For 2 - 4 Players, Ages 14 and under The Baudelaire Mansion A Series of Unfortunate Eventsplace kinn {| ! style="FONT-SIZE: larger; BACKGROUND-COLOR: blue" colspan="2" | Baudelaire Mansion | First AppearanceThe Bad Beginning Location Main City Possessed by Mr. and Mrs. Baudelaire Type Mansion The Baudelaire Mansion is the former home of the Baudelaire family. The house was burned down in presumed arson. The movie based on the series implies that this was due to Count Olaf, using a massive refracting lens. The Baudelaire parents are said to have died in the blaze, leaving Violet, Klaus and Sunny orphaned. The house is connected by a mysterious tunnel to 667 Dark Avenue, the home of Jerome Squalor and formerly Esmé Squalor. The purpose of this passageway was possibly to direct members of the secret organization V.F.D. to safe places before the schism. This passage is likely the reason Jerome Squalor was urged by Jacques Snicket to buy the penthouse of 667 Dark Avenue and never, ever, sell it. For the same reason, Jacques Snicket urged Jerome Squalor not to marry Esmé. In Lemony Snicket: The Unauthorized Autobiography, in an excerpt from The History of Lucky Smells Lumbermill, written by Sir, and mentioned in The Miserable Mill as one of the few books in the Lucky Smells Lumbermill library, it is revealed that Lucky Smells Lumbermill supplied many buildings in its construction, including the Baudelaire, Snicket and Quagmire mansions, with its special "emerald lumber". In the film, the Baudelaire Mansion is situated in 28 Prospero Place, Boston, Massachusetts Count Olaf's house A Series of Unfortunate Events place ! style="FONT-SIZE: larger; BACKGROUND-COLOR: lightgreen" colspan="2" | Count Olaf's House | First Appearance The Bad Beginning Location Main City Size Two stories, with detached tower Possessed byCount Olaf Type castle Count Olaf's House is a fictional place in the series A Series of Unfortunate Eventsby Lemony Snicket. The house first appears in The Bad Beginning. The exterior of the house looks very unclean. The bricks are all stained with soot and grime. The entire building sags to the side. Only two small windows are visible from the front. Above the windows, a dirty tower tilts slightly to the left. On the front door, which needs repainting, an image of an eye is carved. The interior is similar to the exterior, in that the entire house is unkempt and filthy. The house includes a main hallway, a kitchen, a dining room, two bedrooms, and a room in the aforementioned tower. Every room that has been described in the book is dirty, dimly lit, and unpleasant to be in. Count Olaf's house in the 2004 film.

The main entryway has one bare light hanging from the ceiling, a stuffed lion's head nailed to the wall, and a bowl of apple cores on a small wooden table. The bedroom in which the three Baudelaire children stay in while living in Count Olaf's house is a small, dirty room with one bed, one cracked window, a pair of curtains, an empty refrigerator box (which the children keep their clothes in), and a small pile of rocks, for their entertainment (as Count Olaf states). The tower room has walls covered in nothing but pictures of eyes, a desk covered with various things, a few chairs, broken bottles of wine on the floor, and a few lit candles. The Baudelaire children mentioned in The Bad Beginning that they felt many eyes were watching them, and notes of Lemony Snicket from the rare edition of The Bad Beginning, mention that Count Olaf's house had hidden secret peepholes, cameras and microscopic lenses. The Vile Village mentions that the Quagmires were hidden in the tower room for a short while before being hastily moved again. No one seems to want to even go near the house, or at least not Violet, Klaus, and Sunny Baudelaire, and the next door neighbour Justice Strauss. Justice Strauss' house A Series of Unfortunate Events place ! style="FONT-SIZE: larger; BACKGROUND-COLOR: lightblue" colspan="2" | Justice Strauss' House | First Appearance The Bad Beginning LocationMain City Possessed by Justice Strauss Type house Justice Strauss' house is next door to Count Olaf's house. The house is very clean and inviting, especially in comparison to Count Olaf's. Her home has a garden where the Baudelaire children gardened with her during their stay with Count Olaf. The house also has a library with books on a variety of topics, including law, which helped Klaus foil Count Olaf's marital scheme in The Bad Beginning Uncle Monty's house A Series of Unfortunate Events place ! style="FONT-SIZE: larger; BACKGROUND-COLOR: orange" colspan="2" | Uncle Monty's House | First AppearanceThe Reptile Room Location Main Country Possessed by Uncle Monty Type Manor

Uncle Monty's House, in Lemony Snicket's book series, A Series of Unfortunate Events, refers to the home of the Baudelaire orphans' late father's cousin's wife's brother, herpetologist Montgomery Montgomery. The house features a strong snake motif, with sculptures, paintings and (in the large front yard) topiaries of serpents. The home includes at least five bedrooms, a kitchen, a foyer, a living room and a large glass conservatory, used to house Montgomery's reptile collection; the second book in the series, The Reptile Room, takes its name from this room. At the end of this room there is a library, which is well guarded by the snakes. There are probably more rooms, as the home is rather large. It has many stories, as shown in the illustration. In The Slippery Slope, it is revealed that the house is connected by a mysterious tunnel to the Quagmire Mansion. The purpose of this tunnel is as yet unknown. It is also mentioned that the house has been burned down. It was mentioned (by Quigley Quagmire in The Slippery Slope and by Lemony Snicket in The Unauthorized Autobiography) that books concerning V.F.D. were hidden in Dr. Montgomery's library. Aunt Josephine's house A Series of Unfortunate Events place ! style="FONT-SIZE: larger; BACKGROUND-COLOR: yellow" colspan="2" | Aunt Josephine's House | First Appearance The Wide Window Location Coast of Lake Lachrymose Possessed by Aunt Josephine Type house The home of Josephine Anwhistle is featured in The Wide Window, the third novel of the A Series of Unfortunate Events series by Lemony Snicket. The structure is built off the edge of a cliff, being held up by a series of stilts and struts. It is of somewhat small size. The main feature of the house is a wide window, which provides a view of Lake Lachrymose and is the site where Aunt Josephine faked her suicide later in the book. There is also a library that contains books only on grammar. Josephine Anwhistle considers grammar to be the greatest joy in life. The house has only two bedrooms. It also has a dining room, a kitchen and a living room. Although the building has electricity, gas, central heating and a telephone line, none of these are used due to Josephine's many phobias. The house was later blown right off the cliff during Hurricane Herman. It also mentions in Lemony Snicket: The Unauthorized Autobiography that the second half of a V.F.D. meeting manuscript is hidden in Ivan Lachrymose: Lake Explorer, under someone's bed. In The Wide Window, when the Baudelaire orphans are looking for an atlas under a bed in Aunt Josephine's house, one of the books under there is Ivan Lachrymose: Lake Explorer. This suggests that the manuscript is indeed hidden here. Plus in the Grim Grotto, Captain Widdershins said he and the crew of the Queequeg saved books from the house that were being destroyed in Lake Lachrymose. 667 Dark Avenue A Series of Unfortunate Events place ! style="FONT-SIZE: larger; BACKGROUND-COLOR: purple" colspan="2" | 667 Dark Avenue | First AppearanceThe Ersatz Elevator Location Main City Size 66 Floors Type Apartment building 667 Dark Avenue is a fictional apartment building in The City. In The Ersatz Elevator, the Baudelaire orphans stay at the building's penthouse apartment, home of their new guardians Esmé and Jerome Squalor. 667 Dark Avenue has 66 floors, with one apartment on each floor. (The doorman at 667 only remembers the number of floors as either 48 or 84. 66 happens to be the average of the two numbers) There is one set of elevator doors on every floor, except on the 66th floor, where there is a second set of elevator doors. Despite this, elevator use is not said to be in style (or just "in"), and everyone uses the stairs instead. This reflects the obsession with current trends that permeates the building and its street. When nautical theming comes into fashion, the entire lobby was redecorated to reflect this. Esmé Squalor may be the perpetrator of some of these trends, considering that elevator disuse helps to hide the use of the second set of elevator doors on the top floor that hide a shaft and underground passageway leading to the former site of the Baudelaire Mansion, which burned down before the events of The Bad Beginning. Another side effect of lift disuse is that, due to flawed acoustic design, conversations from inside the apartments can easily be overheard from the stairwell. According to Lemony Snicket: The Unauthorized Autobiography, there is another floor above the penthouse, but it is never explained how any one would be able to access it, leaving readers to speculate that there may once have been a genuine elevator in the ersatz elevator shaft, allowing for an easier journey from the secret passage to the secret floor. It is neither mentioned further nor elsewhere. The building's address 667 is similar to 666, the Number of the Beast, and, at the beginning of the novel, it is a literal dark avenue, with all the light blocked out by large trees. Later in the novel, light becomes fashionable again and the trees are chopped down. * One character states that he can never remember whether there are 48 floors or 84 (the actual number, 66, is the average of these two numbers) - this is supposedly a reference to Orwell's 1984, which was Published in 1949. The apartment on the top floor boasts many kitchens, living rooms, dining rooms, breakfast rooms, snack rooms, sitting rooms, standing rooms, halls, ballrooms, bathrooms, and even rooms that seem to serve no purpose at all. Its assets also include 71 bed rooms, 849 windows, and 612 clocks. There is also one large library, which consists of the catalogs for the "In Auctions" and other fashion-conscious books like Boots Were In in 1812. There are so many rooms in the penthouse that one might leave one's bedroom to brush one's teeth and not find one's way back for an hour. The halls are so wide that Sunny Baudelaire (youngest of the Baudelaires) would be the size of an ant compared to it. ! colspan="2" | [hide]v • d • e

A Series of Unfortunate Events

by Lemony Snicket (Daniel Handler) | Novels The Bad Beginning · The Reptile Room · The Wide Window · The Miserable Mill · The Austere Academy · The Ersatz Elevator · The Vile Village · The Hostile Hospital · The Carnivorous Carnival · The Slippery Slope · The Grim Grotto · The Penultimate Peril · The End

Other media Feature film (soundtrack) · The Tragic Treasury · Video game

Accompanying

materials The Beatrice Letters · The Blank Book · The Dismal Dinner · Lemony Snicket: The Unauthorized Autobiography · The Notorious Notations · The Puzzling Puzzles · 13 Shocking Secrets You'll Wish You Never Knew About Lemony Snicket

Characters Violet Baudelaire · Klaus Baudelaire · Sunny Baudelaire · Count Olaf · Mr. and Mrs. Baudelaire · Beatrice · Hook-handed man · Mr. Poe · Quagmire triplets · Lemony Snicket · Snicket siblings · Carmelita Spats · Esmé Squalor · Guardians · Count Olaf's associates · Supporting characters

Elements Recurring themes · Geographic locations · Businesses · Houses · V.F.D. · Animals · The Littlest Elf · Snow Scouts · The Daily Punctilio · Medusoid Mycelium · The Great Unknown

V.F.D.List of V.F.D.s · Snicket file · Sugar bowl · V.F.D. Codes · Zombies in the Snow · Queequeg

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