# The Mill on the Floss

The Mill on the Floss by George Eliot has 207,310 words.

## At a glance

Novel by George Eliot.

- **Author:** [George Eliot](https://musael.com/books/authors/george-eliot.md) (1819–1880)
- **First published:** 1860
- **Original language:** English
- **Genre:** romance
- **Readers:** adult

## How long it takes to read

- **Words:** 207,310
- **Reading time:** 13 h 49 min (at 250 words a minute)
- **Listening time:** 22 h 17 min (audiobook pace, 155 words a minute)

| Reading speed | Whole book | At 30 minutes a day |
| --- | --- | --- |
| 200 wpm | 17 h 17 min | 35 days |
| 250 wpm | 13 h 49 min | 28 days |
| 300 wpm | 11 h 31 min | 24 days |

## Read or listen

The Mill on the Floss is in the public domain: these editions are free to download, read and share.

- Standard Ebooks: https://standardebooks.org/ebooks/george-eliot/the-mill-on-the-floss
- Project Gutenberg: https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/6688

## Counted from the text

Automated estimates from the selected Project Gutenberg text; it may include a preface or notes.

- Words in the text: 207,853
- Chapters: 64
- Dialogue: 35% of the words are inside quotation marks
- Average sentence: 23.3 words

## Where the numbers come from

The word count comes from the sources below.

- https://standardebooks.org/ebooks/george-eliot/the-mill-on-the-floss (word count)
- https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/6688 (word count)
- https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q1215018
- https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Mill_on_the_Floss
- https://openlibrary.org/works/OL20938W
- https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/6688

Checked on 2026-10-27. Page counts change from edition to edition.

Source: https://musael.com/books/the-mill-on-the-floss