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The Complete Wreck (A Series of Unfortunate Events, Books 1-13) | 
| Author: Lemony Snicket
Creator: Brett Helquist
Publisher: HarperCollins
Category: Book
List Price: $150.00
Buy New: $94.50
You Save: $55.50 (37%)
New (17) Used (8) from $81.86
Rating:  50 reviews
Sales Rank: 2124
Format: Box Set
Media: Hardcover
Reading Level: Ages 9-12
Number Of Items: 1
Shipping Weight (lbs): 10.5
Dimensions (in): 13.9 x 7.9 x 5.4
ISBN: 0061119067
EAN: 9780061119064
ASIN: 0061119067
Publication Date: October 13, 2006
Availability: Usually ships in 24 hours
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Product Description
Some boxes should never be opened. For the first time, the complete A Series of Unfortunate Events – including the highly feared #13: The End – is available in one awful package! We can't keep you from succumbing to this international bestselling phenomenon, but we can hide all thirteen books in a huge, elaborately illustrated, shrink–wrapped box, perfect for filling an empty shelf or deep hole. From The Bad Beginning to The End, this box set, adorned with Brett Helquist art from front to back, is the only choice for people who simply cannot get enough of a bad thing! Ages 10+
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| Customer Reviews: Read 45 more reviews...
 My nine year old twin daughters love the books November 13, 2008
Michael A. Duvernois (Minneapolis, MN United States)
And are starting to read them through again. If you didn't get them one at a time, this is a nice set for a (pricey!) one time purchase. Nice quality hardcover books, and a poster and the case for the books.
I've only read them part way through myself. Very funny, very smart, and extremely playful about cliches in books for children. Every standard motif and plot device is manipulated and cut apart from the inside. Books for kids who like books.
 I extected the paper quality to be better ... :( October 8, 2008
Waldemar Kabaa
0 out of 1 found this review helpful
I thought that the paper quality used for the books production will be better - anyway the price is quite competitive.
brilliant September 1, 2008
Michael J. Skipp
My children are 7 + 8, a boy and girl, and they absolutely love it (almost as much as I enjoy reading it to them!) I can see it would be thoroughly enjoyable for boys and girls up until the ages of 12 or 13 and perhaps beyond. The stories weave through the terrible circumstances of three siblings giving snippets of Snickets own experiences with the fiendishly clever Olaf, who manages to conceal his identity (along with his cronies) from all the inept adults whose care the children are placed in. Using humor and a touching emotional depth, Snicket is consistent and colourful, unyielding, uncompromising and understanding. A must.
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