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Horseradish: Bitter Truths You Can't Avoid
1st ed., HC DJ
AuthorLemony Snicket
Cover artistMark Tucker/Merge Left Reps., Inc.
LanguageEnglish
GenreFiction
PublisherHarperCollins
Publication date
April 24, 2007 (United States)
September 3, 2007 (United Kingdom)
Publication placeUnited States
Media typePrint (Paperback)
Pages168 pp
ISBN0-06-124006-0
OCLC123417401
818/.54 22
LC ClassPS3558.A4636 H67 2007

Horseradish: Bitter Truths You Can't Avoid is a 2007 book written by Lemony Snicket. It is a "wit and wisdom" quotation book partly drawn from Snicket's famous A Series of Unfortunate Events.[1]

Contents

Following the tradition of Snicket's work, Horseradish has thirteen chapters, each with a certain theme. The book is prefaced with an introduction that outlines these themes.

Introduction

The bulk of the introduction follows the story of a man and a woman who live in a small grass hut in a village surrounded by a horseradish field. They generally live a routine life, and, as they have no taste for the horseradish, spend most of their time hunting to prepare raisin-stuffed snails to provide for their meals. One night, the wife asks her husband if there is more to life than doing the same thing for years. Her husband replies that the wife's mother once told him about a wise man who would probably know. The wife visits her mother, who says that she heard about the wise man from the wife's third grade teacher, Miss Matmos. Miss Matmos tells the wife that the wise man lives on the top of a mountain far away and that the journey to the top of the mountain is difficult and dull.

After months of walking and thinking about the subjects in the chapter headings, the wife arrives at the house of the wise old man; however, he is in fact not a wise man but a wide man. Tired and hungry, the wife returns home, but learns that in her absence her mother has taken her fishing pole, her husband has married Miss Matmos, and that she failed third grade. The moral of the story is that life has bitter truths that cannot be avoided.

Chapters

  1. Home
  2. Family
  3. School
  4. Work
  5. Entertainment
  6. Literature
  7. Travel
  8. Emotional Health
  9. Affairs of the Heart
  10. A Life of Mystery
  11. The Mystery of Life
  12. An Overall Feeling of Doom that One Cannot Ever Escape no Matter What One Does
  13. Miscellaneous

References

  1. ^ Lemony Snicket AuthorTracker April 24th: In thirteen far-reaching chapters—from "Family" to "Emotional Health," from "A Life of Mystery" to "The Mystery of Life" —Horseradish puts the unhappy mind of Mr. Snicket at your fingertips. This compendium of wisdom drawn from his published works and his unpublishable remarks is the perfect gift for loved ones and enemies alike.
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