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The Hostile Hospital

78.6% complete
2001
2024
1 time
Brothers and sisters - Fiction
Hospitals - Fiction
Humorous stories
Orphans - Fiction
13 chapters
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Text Copyright © 2001 by Lemony Snicket
For Beatrice -
Summer without you is cold as winter.
Winter without you is even colder.
There are two reasons why a writer would end a sentence with the word "stop" written entirely in capital letters STOP.
May contain spoilers
For the Baudelaire orphans - if indeed they were still orphans - the shelter of Count Olaf's trunk would have to do, until something better came along.
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Added: 01-Aug-2022
Last Updated: 03-Jun-2024

Publications

 01-Jan-2001
HarperCollins
Hardback
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Date Issued:
Cir 01-Jan-2001
Format:
Hardback
Cover Price:
$12.99
Pages*:
255
Read:
Once
Reading(s):
1)   24 Apr 2024 - 29 May 2024
Cover Link(s):
Internal ID:
23198
Publisher:
ISBN:
0-064-40866-3
ISBN-13:
978-0-064-40866-0
Printing:
29
Country:
United States
Language:
English
Credits:
Alison Donalty - Cover Design
Brett Helquist  - Cover Artist
Brett Helquist - Illustrator
Dear Reader,

Before you throw this awful book to the ground and run as far away from it as possible, you should probably know why.  This book is the only one which describes every last detail of the Baudelaire children's miserable stay at Heimlich Hospital, which makes it one of the most dreadful books in the world.

There are many pleasant things to read about, but this book contains none of them.  Within its pages are such burdensome details as a suspicious shopkeeper, unnecessary surgery, an intercom system, anesthesia, heart-shaped balloons, and some very startling news about a fire.  Clearly you do not want to read about such things.

I have sworn to research this story, and to write it down as best I can, so I should know that this book is something best left on the ground, where you undoubtedly found it.

With all due respect,

Lemony Snicket
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Notes and Comments:
First Edition, 2001
Twenty-ninth printing based on the number line
Canada: $16.99
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01-Jan-2001
HarperCollins
Hardback

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Author(s)

 Lemony Snicket
Birth: 28 Feb 1970 San Francisco, California, USA
Notes:
From The Vile Village:

LEMONY SNICKET is the author of quite a few books, all dreadful, and has been accused of many crimes, all falsely.  Until recently, he was living someplace else.

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