A Series of Unfortunate Events #5: the Austere Academy
Hardcover – Deckle Edge, August 8, 2000
HarperCollins · Hardcover · August 8, 2000
NOW A NETFLIX ORIGINAL SERIES 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 Lemony Snicket's A Series of Unfortunate Events, the deliciously morbid set of books that began with The Bad Beginning and only got worse.
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- Who it’s for
- A bleak, morbid Snicket installment opens beneath a school motto that offers little reassurance.
- Themes
- Bleak atmosphere, Ominous school setting
- Genres
- Orphans & Foster Kids, Mysteries & Detective Stories, School Stories
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NOW A NETFLIX ORIGINAL SERIES 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."
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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 Lemony Snicket's A Series of Unfortunate Events, the deliciously morbid set of books that began with The Bad Beginning and only got worse.
Cheerfully Bleak
A bleak, morbid Snicket installment opens beneath a school motto that offers little reassurance.
Come here for
- Deliciously morbid series atmosphere
- An ominous school welcome, motto included
Expect
- A very bleak story
- The familiar misfortune-minded tone of the series
Where it sits
| Orphans & Foster Kids | 41% |
|---|---|
| Mysteries & Detective Stories | 37% |
| School Stories | 36% |
Percentages are BookFrontier’s reading of the book.
Publisher categories
- Action & Adventure
- Reptiles & Amphibians
- Biographical Stories
- Orphans & Foster Kids
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- Sibling Stories
- Halloween Stories
- Horror & Ghost Stories
- Funny Stories
- Authors
- Lemony Snicket
- Publisher
- HarperCollins
- Published
- August 8, 2000
- Format
- Hardcover
- Theme
- Bleak atmosphere · Ominous school setting
- Reading lane
- Action & Adventure