The Beatrice Letters
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| The Beatrice Letters | |
| Author | Lemony Snicket |
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| Illustrator | Brett Helquist |
| Cover artist | Brett Helquist |
| Country | United States |
| Language | English |
| Series | A Series of Unfortunate Events (companion) |
| Genre(s) | Epistolary Fantasy novel |
| Publisher | HarperCollins |
| Publication date | September 4, 2006 (UK) September 5, 2006 (US) |
| Media type | Print (Hardback) |
| Pages | 72 pp |
| ISBN | ISBN 0060586583 |
The Beatrice Letters is a book by Lemony Snicket. It is tangential to the children's book series A Series of Unfortunate Events, and was published shortly before the thirteenth and final installment. According to its cover, the book is "suspiciously linked to Book the Thirteenth", although the British edition merely states that it "contains a clue to Book the Thirteenth".
The book consists of thirteen letters, six from Beatrice Baudelaire to Lemony Snicket, six from Lemony Snicket to Mrs. Beatrice Baudelaire, and one from Lemony Snicket to his editor (one of these appears in every book in the main series, but this is the first time such a letter has been incorporated into the plot). However, the two Beatrices, despite sharing a name, are clearly separate individuals, and while Lemony Snicket's letters are plainly written beginning from his childhood and ending shortly before Violet Baudelaire is born, the Beatrice writing to Snicket is apparently writing after the events of The End. The older Beatrice is the one referred to throughout A Series of Unfortunate Events by Lemony Snicket as his deceased love, and her identity as the mother of the Baudelaire children from the series is revealed in The Beatrice Letters, but the younger Beatrice's identity is not directly explained, apart from the statement that she also has some connection to Violet, Klaus, and Sunny (although in The End it is revealed that she is the daughter of Kit Snicket). In the first letter it is revealed that Beatrice Baudelaire are 10 years old and that its tutors are without a trace. Klaus in the period of this letter 25, Violet here 27 and Sunny 13 are. In the second letter Lemony revealed Snicket that count Olaf at him on an anagram course has sat. In the third letter becomes clear that Beatrice are an orphan. In the fourth letter Lemony told Snicket that its employer Eleonora Poe very suspicious is, since The Daily Puntilio published that the Duchess or Winnipeg deaf was instead of dead. In the fifth letter Beatrice beg again its three find tutors. In the sixth letter becomes clear that Lemony aim its letter against Beatrice Baudelaire. In the seventh letter Beatrice claimed that fourth Baudelaire are there. Probably this letter has been written for the fire and is the fourth Baudelaire Bertrand or is fourth Baudelaire-orphan. Beatrice refer there therefore to that on or other manner survivor will be, whereas Beatrice knew then probable still nothing of the fateful fire which will be its mean, or this already from the start to clear that of the two Baudelaire parents the fire would survive? In the eighth letter Beatrice told that Violet, Claus and Sunny find that they had not survived their adventures without Beatrice. It is unclear by which Beatrice are written this letter. In the ninth letter someone sends with the initials L.S. a dispatch to the mother of the Baudelaires in which he wants reveal a code, but the only character of the code on the dispatch is A. The tenth letter is written at the back the visiting card of Beatrice and there answers that they bring never in the problems savage to Lemony and that the next letter him will become concerned by a waiter. Because of this clear that the first letter becomes the ticket of Snicket, in which stands where he will agree with the reader. The eighth letter appears possible still an extra contain letter, with in this all questions of Lemony to Beatrice. The last letter is the letter of Lemony Snicket to its editor, in which he says glad be that the solution of the mysteries of the Baudelaires is now close. The book contains also still a poem that it has been written with the title " My Silence Knot' an anagram of Lemony Snicket.
The book contains twelve punch-out letters (of the alphabet, as opposed to correspondence, although the ambiguity is intentional), and each is mentioned in different, interesting ways. An example is that the first letter is an E, juxtaposed against a card from Snicket to Beatrice, in which a map Snicket had drawn forms an E. The cardstock letters appear to be an anagram of 'Beatrice Sank'. They may also be arranged to spell other words such as 'A Brae Snicket', which may be referring to one of the letters to Beatrice, or 'Bear a Snicket'.
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