Dear Reader, If you are looking for a story about cheerful youngsters spending a jolly time at boarding school, look elsewhere. Violet, Klaus, and Sunny Baudelaire are intelligent and resourceful children, and you might expect that they would do very well at school. Don't. For the Baudelaires, school turns out to be another miserable episode in their unlucky lives. Truth be told, within...

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Dear Reader,I hope, for your sake, that you have not chosen to read this book because you are in the mood for a pleasant experience. If this is the case, I advise you to put this book down instantaneously, because of all the books describing the unhappy lives of the Baudelaire orphans, The Miserable Mill might be the unhappiest yet. Violet, Klaus, and...

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Estaria mentir se dissesse que as aventuras dos irmãos Baudelaire não estão estruturadas de acordo com a mesma fórmula. Em todos os livros, os órfãos são "despejados" pelo Sr. Poe na casa de um novo tutor e o Conde Olaf encontra forma de os encontrar.   Stealing, of course, is a crime, and a very impolite thing to do. But like most impolite...

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