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CHAPTER ONE

A man of my acquaintance once wrote a poem called…

CHAPTER TWO

Violet took one last look over the misty peak, and…

CHAPTER THREE

You may well wonder why there has been no account…

CHAPTER FOUR

That night was a dark day. Of course, all nights…

CHAPTER FIVE

When you have many questions on your mind, and you…

CHAPTER SIX

In the very early hours of the morning, while the…

CHAPTER SEVEN

An associate of mine once wrote a novel called Corridors…

CHAPTER EIGHT

It is one of the peculiar truths of life that…

CHAPTER NINE

The two elder Baudelaires stood for a moment with Quigley,…

CHAPTER TEN

Violet and Quigley walked carefully across the frozen pool until…

CHAPTER ELEVEN

If you ever look at a picture of someone who…

CHAPTER TWELVE

Not too long ago, in the Swedish city of Stockholm,…

CHAPTER THIRTEEN

Count Olaf gasped, and raised his one eyebrow very high…

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