Portal : Lemony Snicket / selected article - wikipedia Portal : Lemony Snicket / selected article < Portal : Lemony Snicket A Series of Unfortunate Events portal `` selected article '' archive Today is Tuesday, May 29, 2018 ; it is now 18 : 40 UTC Purge page cache 2010 February 2010 American children 's author Lemony Snicket signed with Egmont Publishing ( UK ) in August 2009 and Little, Brown and Company ( U.S. ) in November 2009 to begin work on a four - part children 's series. Although Snicket has switched from his former publisher, HarperCollins, to Little, Brown and Company, he will continue to work with his longtime editor Susan Rich. The first novel is set for release in 2012. In August 2009, it was announced that Egmont Publishing had purchased the rights to a new series by Snicket. By November 2009, Little, Brown and Company had purchased the North American rights to the series. The series will have some overlap with his previous series, A Series of Unfortunate Events, but will not involve its protagonists, the Baudelaire orphans. Daniel Handler, the author behind the Snicket pen name, clarified that the series `` is mostly an entirely new story. But if you are a close reader of the series you will see some overlap. There will be something for people who are hungry for that sort of thing. '' He reiterated : `` It does have some overlap with the series, but it 's not a continuation. '' Asked about his progress with the series in January 2010, Handler stated that he was `` at the point that it 's a twinkle in someone else 's eye. '' He told The Scotsman that the series was `` still kind of fetal '', and that he would be writing it in 2010. The Times reported he is playing with a plot and title. The only hint to the story 's plot provided by Handler was that the series will `` approach that question mark from a different angle, '' a reference to the Great Unknown, a mysterious entity appearing in the final three novels of A Series of Unfortunate Events. Egmont publicist Jessica Dean stated : `` If there 's such a thing as a secret secret, this is one. He 's working on it but it 's shrouded in secrecy... He 's busy investigating as only he would. '' Egmont Publishing officially stated, `` The new series... at this stage can not be named ( for fear of jeopardising the final stages of Mr Snicket 's investigations ). '' January 2010 Lemony Snicket 's novel series A Series of Unfortunate Events mentions numerous forms of wild and domestic fauna. Though many such animals are only described in passing -- swans, marmosets, manatees, carrier pigeons, butterflies, and yaks to name a few -- a number play central or secondary roles in the plot. Throughout the series it becomes apparent that V.F.D. utilized numerous animals to accomplish their missions. According to the woman with hair but no beard, the crows, eagles, lions, and reptiles are the main animals of V.F.D. 2009 December 2009 The Volunteer Fire Department ( V.F.D. ) is a secret organization dedicated to the promotion of literacy, classical learning, and crime prevention within the book series A Series of Unfortunate Events by Lemony Snicket. V.F.D. is an abbreviation for various terms related to the organization, which helps to increase the reader 's confusion of what the initials actually stand for. The Baudelaires excepted, the meanings are perfectly clear to the organization 's members. V.F.D. was first mentioned in The Austere Academy when Duncan and Isadora Quagmire were researching Count Olaf. At the climax of the book, they reveal that they have discovered an important secret, but are kidnapped by Olaf before they can tell the Baudelaires. There are mentions of V.F.D. in every book in the series following The Austere Academy. The theme becomes increasingly prominent in subsequent volumes as the Baudelaire orphans investigate the initials ' true meaning, and it appears to figure centrally in their parents ' deaths and the schemes of their enemy, Count Olaf. It eventually transpires that it is the name of a secret organization. The Slippery Slope suggests that V.F.D. stands for ' Volunteer Fire Department ', among other things ; in The End Lemony Snicket 's narration confirms that ' Volunteer Fire Department ' is the correct meaning of the initials. In The Grim Grotto, it is revealed that while this was the origin of the organization, its members had many other interests. While the name `` Volunteer Fire Department '' connotes a group that actively puts out fires ( metaphorically as well as literally, according to Kit Snicket ), it can be read to mean a group that actively starts fires ( something of an allusion to the `` firemen '' in Ray Bradbury 's Fahrenheit 451 ), which indeed happens when the group is split because of a schism. One group of Schismatics fights fires and the other half are arsonists. When the Schism occurred and exactly why it occurred is unknown, except that it was in the childhood of Kit Snicket and Dewey Denouement and that it appears that a line has been drawn between those who stop fires and those who start them. The members of the former are called `` volunteers '' and the members of the latter are called `` villains ''. The `` volunteers '' often appear to be desperate, in that their situation seems to be one of dire straits. It is openly stated that the `` villains '' are growing more powerful and the `` volunteers '' weaker ; however, the epilogue of the thirteenth and final book suggests that after the events therein, the `` volunteer '' half of the organization seems to have survived or recovered, while the `` villain '' half has returned to its former power. The protagonists of the series ( Violet, Klaus and Sunny Baudelaire ) discover that their parents were members of this secret organization, as were many of the guardians they were placed with after their parents ' death, along with various other people they encounter throughout the books. November 2009 The End is the thirteenth and final novel in A Series of Unfortunate Events, by American author Lemony Snicket. The book was released on October 13, 2006 ( Friday the 13th ), ending the series which began in 1999 with the simultaneous publication of The Bad Beginning and The Reptile Room. Set after the destruction of the Hotel Denouement in The Penultimate Peril, which resulted in the death of almost every secondary character in the series, the protagonists, Violet, Klaus, and Sunny Baudelaire, are forced to realize the implications of their increasingly immoral actions by joining the series ' antagonist, Count Olaf, in fleeing to sea, where they shipwreck on an idyllic island populated by similar refugees and overseen by the messianic Ishmael. The novel is the culmination of numerous plot points, including the identity of Snicket 's lost lover Beatrice, the end of the Baudelaires ' quest to solve the mystery of V.F.D., the revelation of the dangers of the Great Unknown and the reason Snicket has sworn to chronicle this portion of the Baudelaires ' lives, and the Baudelaires ' redemption as they come to discern good from evil ; this final theme is presented in an elaborate analogue of the Garden of Eden, the Serpent, and the Tree of the Knowledge of Good and Evil. The End is the only book in the series without an alliterative title. October 2009 The sugar bowl is a fictional object from A Series of Unfortunate Events by Lemony Snicket. It was first mentioned by name in The Hostile Hospital, in which Snicket ( as the narrator ) ponders whether it was necessary to have stolen it from Esmé Squalor. It is ( probably ) indirectly mentioned in The Ersatz Elevator by Esmé. In Lemony Snicket : The Unauthorized Autobiography, it becomes apparent that it contains an object of great power or danger. There are many mentions of the sugar bowl and both sides of V.F.D. seem to be pursuing it ; the Baudelaire orphans are eventually caught up in the search, although they have no idea why the bowl is so important. September 2009 The members of Count Olaf 's theater troupe are fictional characters who appear in Lemony Snicket 's A Series of Unfortunate Events. Frequently referred to as Count Olaf 's associates, assistants, comrades, accomplices, or henchman, the theater troupe is a traveling group of stage actors led by Count Olaf. Each member of the troupe goes by an anagrammatic pseudonym based on the letters in `` Count Olaf '', and these along with certain soubriquets are the only names by which most of them can be identified. The troupe is described thus in The Bad Beginning : There was a bald man with a very long nose, dressed in a long black robe. There were two women who had bright white powder all over their faces, making them look like ghosts. Behind the women was a man with very long and skinny arms, at the end of which were two hooks instead of hands. There was a person who was extremely fat, and who looked like neither a man nor a woman. And behind this person, standing in the doorway, were an assortment of people. August 2009 A Series of Unfortunate Events is a children 's book series of thirteen novels ( or `` tridecalogy '' ) written by Daniel Handler under the pseudonym Lemony Snicket, and illustrated by Brett Helquist. It is about the adventures of three children, the Baudelaire orphans, after the death of their parents in a fire. The setting of the series is anachronistic, and throughout the series there are many literary and cultural allusions. Each book of A Series of Unfortunate Events is longer than the previous one. It is unclear if this was intentional. A film adaptation of the first three books in the series was released on December 17, 2004, as Lemony Snicket 's A Series of Unfortunate Events, which also had a video game adaptation of the same name based on it. Audio books have been released which included songs by The Gothic Archies, and a compilation album of the songs has also been released. July 2009 The children 's novel series A Series of Unfortunate Events features a large cast of characters created by Lemony Snicket. The series follows the turbulent lives of the Baudelaire orphans after their parents, Bertrand and Beatrice, are killed in an arsonous structure fire. As such, many of the characters ( including the series 's primary antagonist, Count Olaf ) are introduced as legal guardians to the Baudelaires until custody is either legally removed, voluntarily rescinded, or terminated by death. Numerous characters are also members of the secret organization V.F.D. or accomplices of Count Olaf. The series 's protagonists, Violet, Klaus, and Sunny Baudelaire, are the talented and resourceful orphans of a wealthy family secretly involved in vigilantism. Although the children depend on the aid of their parents ' estate executor Arthur Poe in the outset, they swiftly begin to rely on one another. The series 's antagonist, Count Olaf, is a professional actor and former member of V.F.D. Along with the assistance of his theater troupe and his girlfriend Esmé Squalor, the count repeatedly attempts to embezzle the Baudelaires ' inheritance, bringing about the serial slaughter and holocaust of a multitude of characters. Eventually the children are falsely accused in Count Olaf 's murder, forcing them to run away and hide in the boondocks. As the Baudelaires ' actions become less and less conventional, they are faced with the ethical paradox of becoming like Olaf in order to escape him. The series is narrated by Lemony Snicket ( the nom de plume of Daniel Handler ), who plays a major role in the plot himself. Although the series is given no distinct location in the English - speaking world, other real persons appear in the narrative as well, including the series 's illustrator, Brett Helquist, and Daniel Handler himself. 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Question: what is vfd in series of unfortunate events
Answer: The Volunteer Fire Department (V.F.D.) is a secret organization dedicated to the promotion of literacy, classical learning, and crime prevention