A Series of Unfortunate Events, Book the Third: The Wide Window, Lemony Snicket

Dear Reader, Beware! To read this book, you must be prepared to face a thousand unpleasant things: a hurricane, a wooden leg, not to mention botched gifts, chilled cucumber soup, grammar manuals – and so much more. Are you sure you want to continue? The entire history of the Baudelaire orphans is enough to break your heart, but this episode might just be the most sorrowful of them all. [...] Lemony Snicket