Copyright

THE AUSTERE ACADEMY. Text copyright © 2000 by Lemony Snicket. Illustrations copyright © 2000 by Brett Helquist. All rights reserved under International and Pan-American Copyright Conventions. By payment of the required fees, you have been granted the nonexclusive, nontransferable right to access and read the text of this e-book on-screen. No part of this text may be reproduced, transmitted, downloaded, decompiled, reverse-engineered, or stored in or introduced into any information storage and retrieval system, in any form or by any means, whether electronic or mechanical, now known or hereafter invented, without the express written permission of HarperCollins e-books.


Library of Congress Cataloging-in-Publication Data

Snicket, Lemony.

The austere academy / by Lemony Snicket ; illustrations by Brett Helquist.

p. cm. — (A series of unfortunate events ; bk. 5)

Summary: As their outrageous misfortune continues, the Baudelaire orphans are shipped off to a miserable boarding school, where they befriend the two Quagmire triplets and find that they have been followed by the dreaded Count Olaf.

ISBN 0-06-440863-9 — ISBN 0-06-028888-4 (lib. bdg.)

EPub Edition © July 2015 ISBN 9780061757174

[1. Orphans—Fiction. 2. Brothers and sisters—Fiction. 3. Boarding schools—Fiction. 4. Schools—Fiction. 5. Humorous stories.] I. Helquist, Brett, ill. II. Title.

PZ7.S6795 Au 2000 00-24349
[Fic]—dc21 CIP
AC

35 37 39 41 42 40 38 36 34

First Edition, 2000

Visit us on the World Wide Web! www.harpercollinschildrens.com