AuthorLemony Snicket
NarratorTim Curry
SeriesA Series of Unfortunate Events, Book 1
Duration2h 30m
CategoriesChildren's Fiction
Key StageKS2
PublisherHarper Collins
VersionUnabridged
Like a car alarm, bagpipe music, or a doorbell ringing in the middle of the night, hearing this all-new audio edition of The Bad Beginning will only upset you. This unique multi-voice recording brings the first book in Lemony Snicket's alarming A Series of Unfortunate Events to such terrible life that no one should really have to experience it. Unless you have an ear for such ghastly details as a tragic fire, a nefarious villain, itchy clothing, and cold porridge for breakfast, all narrated in chilly detail by the distinguished, and disturbed, Tim Curry with a team of talented readers, you would be better off listening to something else.
The Series of Unfortunate Events Book 8: The Hostile Hospital
Author: Lemony Snicket
Author Lemony Snicket
Narrator Tim Curry
SeriesA Series of Unfortunate Events, Book 8
Duration 4h 16m
The Baudelaires need a safe place to stay-somewhere far away from terrible villains and local police. A quiet refuge where misfortune never visits. Might Heimlich Hospital be just the place? In Lemony Snicket's eighth ghastly installment in A Series of Unfortunate Events, I'm sorry to say that the Baudelaire orphans will spend time in a hospital wh...
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A Series of Unfortunate Events Book 7: The Vile Village
Author: Lemony Snicket
Author Lemony Snicket
Narrator Tim Curry
SeriesA Series of Unfortunate Events, Book 7
Duration 4h 22m
Dear Reader, You have undoubtedly picked up this book by mistake, so please put it down. Nobody in their right mind would read this particular book about the lives of Violet, Klaus, and Sunny Baudelaire on purpose, because each dismal moment of their stay in the village of V.F.D. has been faithfully and dreadfully recorded in these pages. I c...
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A Series of Unfortunate Events Book 4: The Miserable Mill
Author: Lemony Snicket
Author Lemony Snicket
Narrator Lemony Snicket
SeriesA Series of Unfortunate Events, Book 4
Duration 3h 2m
Dear Listener, If you have chosen to listen to this audio for pleasure, I advise you to put it down instantaneously, because of all the audios describing the unhappy lives of the Baudelaire orphans, The Miserable Mill might be the unhappiest. This recording contains such unpleasantries as a giant pincher machine, a bad casserole, a man with a c...
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A Series of Unfortunate Events Book 11: The Grim Grotto
Author: Lemony Snicket
Author Lemony Snicket
Narrator Tim Curry
SeriesA Series of Unfortunate Events, Book 11
Duration 6h
Warning: Your day will become very dark-and possibly damp-if you read this book. Plan to spend this spring in hiding. Lemony Snicket is back with the eleventh book in his New York Times bestselling A Series of Unfortunate Events. Lemony Snicket's saga about the charming, intelligent and grossly unlucky Baudelaire orphans continues to provoke suspi...
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A Series of Unfortunate Events Book 5: The Austere Academy
Author: Lemony Snicket
Author Lemony Snicket
Narrator Lemony Snicket
SeriesA Series of Unfortunate Events, Book 5
Duration 3h 16m
As the three Baudelaire orphans warily approach their new home Prufrock Preparatory School, they can't help but notice the enormous stone arch bearing the school's motto Memento Mori or "Remember you will die." This is not a cheerful greeting and certainly marks an inauspicious beginning to a very bleak story just as we have come to expect from Lem...
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A Series of Unfortunate Events Book 12: The Penultimate Peril
Author: Lemony Snicket
Author Lemony Snicket
Narrator Tim Curry
SeriesA Series of Unfortunate Events, Book 12
Duration 6h 27m
After any harrowing struggle, it is nice to consider checking into a hotel for a rest. In fact, this might be just the break Violet, Klaus, and Sunny Baudelaire could use after their wearying deep-sea adventure. A hotel can be a good choice for any family vacation. With so many floors, such a variety of rooms, and a curious array of guests, spendin...
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A Series of Unfortunate Events Book 10: The Slippery Slope
Author: Lemony Snicket
Author Lemony Snicket
Narrator Tim Curry
SeriesA Series of Unfortunate Events, Book 10
Duration 6h 9m
DISCLAIMER: The long term effects of listening to this audio are unknown. Scientists have detected slightly higher rates of panic, fright and free-floating anxiety amongst listeners to this audio than that found in those listeners who engaged in more pleasant listening activities. Dear Listener, Like handshakes or housepets, many things are p...
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A Series of Unfortunate Events Book 3: The Wide Window
Author: Lemony Snicket
Author Lemony Snicket
Narrator Lemony Snicket
SeriesA Series of Unfortunate Events, Book 3
Duration 3h 7m
Dear Reader, If you have not read anything about the Baudelaire orphans, then before you read even one more sentence, you should know this: Violet, Klaus, and Sunny are kindhearted and quick-witted; but their lives, I am sorry to say, are filled with bad luck and misery. All of the stories about these three children are unhappy and wretched, and th...
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A Series of Unfortunate Events Book 2: The Reptile Room
Author: Lemony Snicket
Author Lemony Snicket
Narrator Tim Curry
SeriesA Series of Unfortunate Events, Book 2
Duration 3h 11m
Violet, Klaus, and Sunny Baudelaire are intelligent children. They are charming, and resourceful, and have pleasant facial features. Unfortunately, they are exceptionally unlucky. In the first two books alone, the three youngsters encounter a greedy and repulsive villain, itchy clothing, a disastrous fire, a plot to steal their fortune, a lumpy bed...
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A Series of Unfortunate Events Book 6: The Ersatz Elevator
Author: Lemony Snicket
Author Lemony Snicket
Narrator Tim Curry
SeriesA Series of Unfortunate Events, Book 6
Duration 4h 29m
In their most daring misadventure, the Baudelaire orphans are adopted by very, very rich people, whose penthouse apartment is located mysteriously close to the place where all their misfortune began. Even though their new home in the city is fancy, and the children are clever and charming, I'm sorry to say that still, the unlucky orphans will encou...
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