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'''''Book the Thirteenth: The End''''' is the thirteenth and final novel in the ] series '']'' by ]. The book was released on Friday, October 13, 2006.<ref>{{cite web|first= Steve| last = Inskeep |url=https://www.npr.org/templates/story/story.php?storyId=6259842|title=Lemony Snicket Reaches 'The End'| publisher= NPR | date = 13 October 2006|access-date=14 February 2011}}</ref>


== Plot ==
'''''The End''''' is the thirteenth and final novel in the book series '']'' by ].
The book begins with the ] and ] on a boat heading away from the burning Hotel Denouement. After a storm, the Baudelaires arrive and are welcomed on an island by a young girl named Friday. Count Olaf, however, is not welcomed due to his snobby attitude and death threat to Friday.


Later, the pregnant Kit Snicket (who first appeared in '']'') and a friendly snake known as the "incredibly deadly viper (a misnomer)" (which first appeared in '']'') are shipwrecked on the island. Count Olaf disguises himself as Kit, but for the first time in the series, it fails to convince anybody. The Islanders, led by a man called Ishmael (who, multiple times, says that "he won't force them" to do what he wants), capture him and shun the Baudelaires for possessing forbidden items.
==Plot summary==
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The book starts with ] and the ] on a boat the size of a large bed, far away from the burning ]. Count Olaf is bragging about burning the Hotel Denouement and how he has destroyed ] once and for all. However, a storm brews up, and batters the Baudelaires' boat through the night. The following morning, they find themselves on a large coastal shelf. While looking for land they find Count Olaf, who ostensibly reassumes his command over the orphans, though the net result is that the group simply continues looking for an island just as before. On locating and walking towards the island, they meet a six or seven year old girl called ]. Olaf, who had previously proclaimed himself king of ], threatens the girl with his ] and orders her to bow to him. Friday ignores him, and invites the Baudelaires to come with her to the colony, telling Olaf to go away. Along the way, she describes what the islanders do with their time--all year long, they build an ] on the shelf, and once a year the water rises high enough to totally submerge the shelf and allow the outrigger to set sail. This is known as Decision Day, and on this day anyone who wants to leave can board the ship and sail away. Otherwise, the boat is lit on fire and set adrift.


That night, two of the islanders sneak out to feed the children, asking them to join a mutiny. Agreeing, the Baudelaires go to the arboretum to collect weapons, where they discover a hidden room with a book that chronicles the history of the island. Ishmael arrives, explaining to the children that their parents were once the island's leaders and were responsible for many improvements in island life, but were eventually overthrown by Ishmael, who brought the island back to a simple and austere way of life while hoarding comforts for himself.
The Baudelaires are welcomed into an island colony, where it finally seems that there is no treachery whatsoever. The island ], ], a man who claims he cannot walk due to sore feet and who continually asks people to "call Ish", introduces the Baudelaires to the strange island customs; e.g., the islanders must always wear white robes, anything found on the continental shelf that is not (in his view) required for life on the island is to taken by sheep over a ] to the colony's ]. Also, Ishmael has the islanders (practically all named after famous literary or historical castaways) introduce themselves to the Baudelaires. It becomes clear that, though he always begins his suggestions by saying "I won't force you", his decisions go largely unquestioned and his suggestions are obeyed like orders. Afterward, a woman called Mrs. ] comes into the tent, gives them a lunch of bland ], and announces that she is the mother of Friday and the main cook on the island. They make a toast to the "Baudelaire orphans" (despite their not yet having mentioned the fact of their lost parents to anyone) with the strange coconut ] which everybody carries a flask of at all times, but which the orphans themselves dislike.


The Baudelaires and Ishmael go back to the other side of the island, where the mutiny is already underway. Ishmael harpoons Olaf in the stomach, inadvertently shattering the helmet containing the Medusoid ], a deadly fungus, infecting the island's entire population. The Baudelaires run back to the arboretum to find horseradish, a cure for the fungus. While reading through the book left by their parents to find where the horseradish is hidden, the three continue to be affected by the fungus called the Medusoid Mycelium and, after some deliberation, accept their deaths. They eventually find that the cure is in the hybridized apples on a tree in the arboretum. They gather apples for the other islanders, only to discover that the island people have abandoned the mutiny and boarded their outrigger canoe, preparing to leave the island. Ishmael promises that he will save the islanders by sailing to a horseradish factory, but refuses to give them the apples, despite having already consumed one himself. The Baudelaires manage to toss an apple to Friday before the canoe departs.
After another storm, the Baudelaires find a giant pile of books on the coastal shelf, tied together in the shape of a cube with a very-pregnant Kit Snicket lying unconscious on top, along with the Incredibly Deadly Viper from ]. The island people soon join the scene, along with Count Olaf, poorly disguised as another Kit Snicket (with the diving-helmet containing the ] tucked under his dress as his supposed baby), but despite the fact that the islanders (for once) immediately see through Olaf's flimsy disguise and imprison him in a large birdcage, they end up debating whether the orphans should be expelled from the colony as well when Olaf spitefully reveals that the Baudelaires are still carrying contraband items that Ishmael had earlier "suggested" they dispose of (such as Violet's hair ribbon and Klaus' commonplace book). Ishmael is carried out to the gathering on the shelf and decides that the children, Kit, and Olaf should all be abandoned unless they agree to abide by the colony's rules. He seems unconcerned with the fact that Decision Day is quickly approaching, and anyone left out on the coastal shelf will certainly drown. After everyone leaves, Olaf tries to tempt the children to let him out of the cage by promising to explain the many mysteries and secrets which they have been surrounded by since ], but they ignore him until he falls asleep.


At this point, Kit is about to go into labor. Though she is succumbing to the fungus, she cannot eat the bitter apple due to its unhealthy effects on unborn babies. When the dying Olaf hears that she is still alive, he uses his last effort to get her safely down onto the beach, where he kisses Kit and dies soon after.
That night, two of the islanders sneak out with a basket of food for the Baudelaires, as well as a favor to ask of them. A group of discontented colonists are planning a ] against Ishmael in the morning, and the Baudelaires are told to go over to the aboretum where all the contraband items are collected, and find or make some weapons to use in the rebellion "just in case". Further, the mutineers refuse to help Kit (who recently regained consciousness and, though injured, hates the idea of contributing to yet another ]) unless the Baudelaires do so. They agree in the end, and set off for the aboretum, which is basically a huge junk-yard situated beneath a vast apple tree. The orphans discover a well-appointed living area built beneath the tree, before they are in turn discovered by Ishmael (who can walk perfectly well and has been using the aboretum's comfortable living area for himself). They learn that their parents were once the island's leaders and were responsible for many improvements meant to make island-life easier and more pleasant, but they were eventually overthrown by Ishmael, who believed that a strictly-enforced simple life (combined with the ] of the coconut cordial) was the best way to avoid conflict. They also find an enormous book written by the many different people who had served as island leaders, including their parents and Ishmael, as a history of the island. The book was titled ''A Series of Unfortunate Events''.


The Baudelaires help Kit give birth to a baby girl. Kit then dies after requesting that the orphans name the baby after their mother Beatrice. The Baudelaires spend the next year taking care of Kit's daughter, occasionally visiting the graves of Kit and Olaf.
The Baudelaires, with Ishmael, go back to the other side of the island, where the mutiny is already in full-swing just as Count Olaf returns (still in disguise). After a brief exchange, Ishmael harpoons Olaf in the stomach, which shatters the helmet and releases the Medusoid Mycelium, infecting the island's entire population at once. The Baudelaires run back to the arboretum to try to find some ] (the only cure for the fungus). They learn from the history-book that their parents had actually ]ized the tree's apples with horseradish, causing the fruit to taste bitter but also to cure the effects of the Medusoid Mycelium. With the Baudelaires on the verge of death, Ink (the Incredibly Deadly Viper) slithers up to them and offers them an apple. After sharing the apple and curing themselves, they then rush to gather more apples for the island's inhabitants, only to discover that the island people, mutineers and supporters alike, have all already boarded their ] and are preparing to set sail, blaming the Baudelaires for their misfortune. Ishmael callously refuses to allow the bitter apples onboard, though it is clear that he himself has already eaten one to cure himself, and the boat full of wheezing islanders sails away. (It is mentioned, however, that Ink may have succeeded in getting one curative apple to the departing islanders without Ishmael noticing, to tide them over until they can cure themselves properly).


After reading an entry from the history book written by their parents, the Baudelaires decide to leave the island with Beatrice in order to honor their parents' wishes. Despite their fears about the outside world, the children prepare a boat and supplies for their journey back to the mainland and Beatrice says her first word, which is "Beatrice".
The Baudelaires are told by Kit that the Quagmires and Captain Widdershins' crew were all taken by the mysterious object shaped like a question mark (encountered once before when they were on the ''Queequeg''). The author goes on to call the question mark "The Great Unknown", which is often an euphemism for what comes after death. In turn, the Baudelaires confess their own crimes committed at the Hotel Denoument, and the four of them all cry together for all the sorrows in the world. At this point, Kit is about to go into ], and also seems to be dying of the fungus, but cannot eat the bitter apple due to the hybrid's unhealthy effects on pregnant women and unborn babies. She is still trapped on top of the cube of books (her ]) but when the critically-injured and fungus-choked Olaf hears that she is still alive, he takes a bite of an apple and manages to get her safely down onto the beach, giving her a single soft kiss as he lays her on the sand and collapses beside her. Kit recites the poem "]" by ], answered by Olaf reciting the final stanza of ]'s "]". He then dies after a last short, sharp laugh. The Baudelaires help Kit give birth, and she dies immediately afterward due to the Medusoid Mycelium. Before this, however, she asks them to give the baby the name of one of their parents, maintaining the tradition of both the Baudelaires and the Snickets of naming their children after dead friends. Here ''The End'' ends with the Baudelaires becoming Kit's child's adopted parents. They bury Kit and Olaf, apparently next to each other, somewhere on the island.


==Reception==
A fourteenth chapter (significant because prior books in the series have only had thirteen chapters) takes place a year later as the Baudelaires prepare to leave the island with the baby girl. The boat on which they leave the island (which is built from the remains of the yacht on which they arrived in the first place) is revealed to have been originally named ], after ]. Kit's daughter reads the ship's name and simultaneously says her own, confirming once and for all that Beatrice was the Baudelaires' mother.
With sales of over 2 million copies in the United States, ''The End'' was the bestselling children's book of 2006 according to '']'', who also reported 3 million sales of the previous 12 books in the series in the same year.<ref>{{cite news|last=Roback|first=Diane|date=March 26, 2007|title=Lemony Endings, Sweet|work=]|volume=254|page=43}}</ref>


==Translations==
With a final picture of the question mark object in the water, the reader is left to wonder whether Violet, Klaus, Sunny, and little Beatrice will find fortune or misfortune on their journey back to civilization. They decide to leave the huge book ''A Series of Unfortunate Events'' on the island for whoever washes up at the abandoned colony next.
* {{Citation | language = fi | title = Loppu | publisher = WSOY | year = 2007 | isbn = 978-951-0-32760-9}}.
* {{Citation | language = ja | title = 終わり | publisher = Soshisha | year = 2008 | isbn = 978-4-7942-1674-8}}.
* {{Citation | language = ru | title = Конец | publisher = Azbuka | year = 2007 | isbn = 978-5-91181-623-0}}.
* {{Citation | language = el| title = Τέλος | publisher = Ελληνικά Γράμματα| year = 2007 | isbn = 9789604429455}}.
* ]: ''Slutten'', Tor Edvin Dahl, Cappelen Damm, 2007, {{ISBN|9788202273859}}
* ] : "Koniec końców" ("At Long Last", literally: "The End of Ends")
* ]: "จุดจบ (แห่งความโชคร้าย)", Nanmeebooks Teen, 2007, {{ISBN|9789749488515}}


==Adaptation==
Although Lemony Snicket says he does not know what befell the Baudelaire orphans, other books by him indicate that the Baudelaires do in fact reach the mainland and all three orphans survive and grow up. ] makes reference to Sunny when she is older, and ] speaks of Klaus, many years later, wishing he had pushed Count Olaf back into his taxi, while '']: Rare Edition'' mentions that Violet will return to ] a third time, possibly after meeting a group of Female Finnish Pirates. As the younger Beatrice, in ''The Beatrice Letters'', is searching for Violet, Klaus and Sunny, it can be presumed that she will be separated from the Baudelaires at some point.
The book was adapted as the seventh and final episode of the third season of the ] produced by ]; the final book is adapted into a single episode.<ref name="HandlerEWJan2017">{{cite magazine|url=http://ew.com/tv/2017/01/11/lemony-snicket-series-of-unfortunate-events-netflix-daniel-handler/|title=Lemony Snicket speaks out about Netflix's Series of Unfortunate Events|last=Snetiker|first=Marc|magazine=]|date=January 11, 2017|access-date=January 12, 2017}}</ref> In this version, there is no rebellion against Ishmael's rule and the children's parents left of their own volition. The television series also ends with a young Beatrice II, Kit's daughter, recounting their subsequent undocumented adventures to ], a plot point implied to have occurred in '']''.<ref name=":0">{{Cite episode|title=The End|series=A Series of Unfortunate Events|network=Netflix|date=January 1, 2019|season=3|number=7}}</ref>


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== Biblical Parallels ==
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One of the overarching images of the book is a tree that produces bitter apples on the island on which the Baudelaires are shipwrecked. The tree houses a 'library' or 'catalogue' of knowledge underneath its branches, and in fact in a hidden room underneath the tree itself. This, together with the friendly snake who provides the orphans an apple in their hour of need, and the discussions they have with Ishmael about whether knowledge is something from which people should be protected if they wish to avoid strife, clearly parallels the creation story of ].


The orphans (and, by extension, the author) decide that knowledge is worth the price, and that life must be faced head-on, rather than avoided. The Baudelaires unhesitatingly run to the tree to seek salvation when a poison fungus is unloosed on the island. As the other, sheltered islanders flee with their bearded father figure, the orphans desperately offer them the apples of that tree, in an effort to save them from poisoning with its curative properties.

Also notable is that the clearest literary parallel, the story of Adam and Eve in the Garden of Eden, is the first story in the first book of the Bible. It serves as the last story of the ''].'' ''The End'' explicitly discusses how no story really has a true beginning nor end<ref>"One could say, in fact, that no story really has a beginning, and that no story really has an end, as all of the world's stories are as jumbled as the items in the arboretum..." ''The End,'' p. 288.</ref>, as all the world's stories intersect with those that came before and after.

==Differences==
*This book is the only book in the series without an ].
*The American cover has the same illustration as the British cover. The only other book in the series to use the same cover picture for both editions is The Penultimate Peril.
*On October 10th (or, in the United Kingdom, the 9th) an audio CD called '']'' was released, featuring all the songs from the audio versions of the books. The song title for ''The End'' was "''Shipwrecked''".
*This is the only <i>A Series Of Unfortunate Events</i> book to have more than thirteen chapters (not counting "Not a Chapter" and "Also Not a Chapter" in '']'', and not counting the extra page of chapter five in '']'', and also counting ''Chapter Fourteen'' as a chapter of ''The End'' and not a book in its own right, although it is treated that way).
*The ersatz ending to ''The End'' was the first instance that artist Brett Helquist and Author Lemony Snicket had swapped their billing places in the pictorial credits. Brett, dressed in Snicket's usual fashion, was photographed and on top, while Lemony, face exposed save for cucumber slices over his eyes, was drawn underneath—a comic depiction of Snicket, as he is shown relaxing beside a pool with a cocktail, when he (as are the Baudelaires) is usually depicted as terribly unfortunate. Their roles revert to their traditional billing places at the true conclusion of the book.
*The UK Edition does not contain the correct image for Chapter Two, nor were the final pictures in the book included. This was due to a mix-up in the printing of the British version and as of early ] the book should include these images.

==Literary allusions==
*Lemony Snicket continues to make references to other classic novels in ''The End''. The character Ishmael is named after the narrator of '']''. Snicket's Ishmael constantly says "Call me Ish," a reference to "Call me Ishmael," the opening line of ''Moby-Dick''. The submarine in ''The Grim Grotto'', the '']'', is also named after a character in ''Moby-Dick'', and the crew wear uniforms bearing an image of the novel's author, ].
*All of the people in the colony take their names from more or less famous castaways from literature or are connected to such castaways. There is '']'' (call me Ish), a reference to Herman Melville’s ''Moby-Dick'' which itself references Ishmael, older brother to the biblical ]. There are the obvious ''Robinson'' and ''Friday'' from ]’s '']'', '']'' from ]’s '']'', ''Marlow'' and ''Kurtz'' from ]’s '']''. Furthermore, ]’s '']'' provides ''], ]'', ''Alonso'', '']'' and ''Ferdinand'' while ''Larsen'', ''Weyden'' and ''Brewster'' are taken from ]’s '']''. ''Sherman'' in all likelihood is from ]’s '']''. '']'' (which is an ] of "nowhere") and '']'' are actually places, from the novel by ] and the poem by ], respectively. Real castaways are ''Fletcher'' and ''Bligh'', both from '']'', some parts of it set on the island of '']'', fictionalized by ] (Snicket uses the incorrect spelling ''Nordoff'') and ] who also included ''Byam'' in their novel. ''Jonah'', a Biblical character, was swallowed by a giant fish. ''Finn'' is quite likely a reference to ]'s ], who traveled the Mississippi on a raft. ''Sadie Bellamy'' refers to two historical pirates: Captain ], written about in Defoe's ''A General History of the Robberies and Murders of the Most Notorious Pirates'' published under the pen name Captain Charles Johnson and Sadie the Goat, a notorious female pirate in the ] who raided merchant ships and homes on the Hudson River in the mid-1800s.
* The final colonist ''Willa'' may be a reference to the American author ]. From her novel ''My Mortal Enemy'' (1926): "When kindness has left people, even for a few moments, we become afraid of them, as if their reason had left them. When it has left a place where we have always found it, it is like ''shipwreck''; we drop from security into something malevolent and bottomless."
*The castaways, who dress in white and whose consumption of the the coconut cordial keeps them docile, are an allusion to the ] encountered in the Odyssey. Also, Sunny calls the cordial "Lethe," a river whose waters cause forgetfulness in Greek mythology. The sheep strapped together are also a possible allusion to the Odyssey: Odysseus hides his men under sheep strapped together to escape the cyclops' cave; the orphans find it easier to simply walk when they need to escape.
*The poem Olaf recites at the end (and, presumably, the choice of a "coastal shelf" as an important setting in the novel) comes from the poem '']'' by ].
*The story bears many similarities to the ]. In the center of the island is an apple tree which holds knowledge of the outside world, and the apples of this tree can only be eaten when leaving the island. Also, the ] holds the apple in his mouth when he gives it to Violet, just as Satan, in the form of a serpent, gave the apple to Eve. (Note that the Biblical story does not explicitly mention ]s as the fruit, but in fiction and art they are usually depicted as such.) The traditional Western Christian interpretation of the Garden of Eden myth holds that Eve became responsible for the fallen state of humanity when she ate the fruit. But in Snicket's version, eating the fruit can be seen as a rite of passage to adulthood, as the children leave once and for all the sheltered life that their parents kept them in and take on a life of parenthood themselves, aware that it is far better to allow your children to live life fully -- and even dangerously -- than to shelter them forever.
*In addition to the characters, ''Miranda Caliban'' and ''Ariel'', whose names come from Shakespeare's "The Tempest," there is also a reference to the ship "Prospero," another character from the same play. Furthermore, the book's plot is not unlike the plot of "The Tempest," in which characters wash ashore on a mysterious island.
*When Sunny asks 'Why are you telling us about this ring?', the word she uses is 'Neiklot', or ']' backwards.

==Possible Secrets==
*In the last section of the book (Chapter Fourteen), there is a fake copyright page which has the following underneath the copyright.
<blockquote><i>Ô mort, vieux capitaine, il est temps! Levons l'ancre! <br>
Ce pays nous ennuie, Ô mort! Appareillons! <br>
Si le ciel et la mer sont noirs comme de l'encre. <br>
Nos coeurs que tu connais sont remplis de rayons!</i></blockquote>

This is the first verse of the eighth and final part of ]'s poem, "Le Voyage," from ]. It is translated by William Aggeler as follows:

<blockquote><i>O Death, old captain, it is time! let's weigh anchor!<br>
This country wearies us, O Death! Let us set sail! <br>
Though the sea and the sky are black as ink, <br>
Our hearts which you know well are filled with rays of light!</i><ref>William Aggeler, <i>The Flowers of Evil</i> (Fresno, CA: Academy Library Guild, 1954)</ref></blockquote>


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The End
AuthorLemony Snicket (pen name of Daniel Handler)
IllustratorBrett Helquist
LanguageEnglish
SeriesA Series of Unfortunate Events
GenreGothic fiction
Absurdist fiction
Mystery
PublisherHarperCollins
Publication dateOctober 13, 2006
Publication placeUnited States
Media typePrint (hardback & paperback)
Pages324
ISBN0-06-441016-1
OCLC70718171
LC ClassPZ7.S6795 En 2006
Preceded byThe Penultimate Peril 

Book the Thirteenth: The End is the thirteenth and final novel in the children's novel series A Series of Unfortunate Events by Lemony Snicket. The book was released on Friday, October 13, 2006.

Plot

The book begins with the Baudelaire orphans and Count Olaf on a boat heading away from the burning Hotel Denouement. After a storm, the Baudelaires arrive and are welcomed on an island by a young girl named Friday. Count Olaf, however, is not welcomed due to his snobby attitude and death threat to Friday.

Later, the pregnant Kit Snicket (who first appeared in The Grim Grotto) and a friendly snake known as the "incredibly deadly viper (a misnomer)" (which first appeared in The Reptile Room) are shipwrecked on the island. Count Olaf disguises himself as Kit, but for the first time in the series, it fails to convince anybody. The Islanders, led by a man called Ishmael (who, multiple times, says that "he won't force them" to do what he wants), capture him and shun the Baudelaires for possessing forbidden items.

That night, two of the islanders sneak out to feed the children, asking them to join a mutiny. Agreeing, the Baudelaires go to the arboretum to collect weapons, where they discover a hidden room with a book that chronicles the history of the island. Ishmael arrives, explaining to the children that their parents were once the island's leaders and were responsible for many improvements in island life, but were eventually overthrown by Ishmael, who brought the island back to a simple and austere way of life while hoarding comforts for himself.

The Baudelaires and Ishmael go back to the other side of the island, where the mutiny is already underway. Ishmael harpoons Olaf in the stomach, inadvertently shattering the helmet containing the Medusoid Mycelium, a deadly fungus, infecting the island's entire population. The Baudelaires run back to the arboretum to find horseradish, a cure for the fungus. While reading through the book left by their parents to find where the horseradish is hidden, the three continue to be affected by the fungus called the Medusoid Mycelium and, after some deliberation, accept their deaths. They eventually find that the cure is in the hybridized apples on a tree in the arboretum. They gather apples for the other islanders, only to discover that the island people have abandoned the mutiny and boarded their outrigger canoe, preparing to leave the island. Ishmael promises that he will save the islanders by sailing to a horseradish factory, but refuses to give them the apples, despite having already consumed one himself. The Baudelaires manage to toss an apple to Friday before the canoe departs.

At this point, Kit is about to go into labor. Though she is succumbing to the fungus, she cannot eat the bitter apple due to its unhealthy effects on unborn babies. When the dying Olaf hears that she is still alive, he uses his last effort to get her safely down onto the beach, where he kisses Kit and dies soon after.

The Baudelaires help Kit give birth to a baby girl. Kit then dies after requesting that the orphans name the baby after their mother Beatrice. The Baudelaires spend the next year taking care of Kit's daughter, occasionally visiting the graves of Kit and Olaf.

After reading an entry from the history book written by their parents, the Baudelaires decide to leave the island with Beatrice in order to honor their parents' wishes. Despite their fears about the outside world, the children prepare a boat and supplies for their journey back to the mainland and Beatrice says her first word, which is "Beatrice".

Reception

With sales of over 2 million copies in the United States, The End was the bestselling children's book of 2006 according to Publishers Weekly, who also reported 3 million sales of the previous 12 books in the series in the same year.

Translations

Adaptation

The book was adapted as the seventh and final episode of the third season of the television series adaptation produced by Netflix; the final book is adapted into a single episode. In this version, there is no rebellion against Ishmael's rule and the children's parents left of their own volition. The television series also ends with a young Beatrice II, Kit's daughter, recounting their subsequent undocumented adventures to Lemony Snicket, a plot point implied to have occurred in The Beatrice Letters.

References

  1. Inskeep, Steve (13 October 2006). "Lemony Snicket Reaches 'The End'". NPR. Retrieved 14 February 2011.
  2. Roback, Diane (March 26, 2007). "Lemony Endings, Sweet". Publishers Weekly. Vol. 254. p. 43.
  3. Snetiker, Marc (January 11, 2017). "Lemony Snicket speaks out about Netflix's Series of Unfortunate Events". Entertainment Weekly. Retrieved January 12, 2017.
  4. "The End". A Series of Unfortunate Events. Season 3. Episode 7. January 1, 2019. Netflix.
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