A Series of Unfortunate Events · Book 4

The Miserable Mill

by Lemony Snicket

Published
1 January 2000
Pages
202
ISBN-13
9780061550362
Type
novel

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Cover of The Miserable Mill

About this book

The Miserable Mill was published in 2000, holding the fourth spot in the series, with the Baudelaires' pursuit by Count Olaf continuing under his latest elaborate disguise. It runs 202 pages.

Its place in A Series of Unfortunate Events

The Miserable Mill is book 4 in the A Series of Unfortunate Events series. It follows The Wide Window. It is followed by The Austere Academy. See the full A Series of Unfortunate Events reading order.

The three Baudelaire orphans - inventive Violet, bookish Klaus, and biting baby Sunny - lose their parents in a fire and are shuttled from one disastrous guardian to the next, pursued at every turn by the scheming Count Olaf, who wants their inheritance and will adopt any disguise to get it. Narrated in deliberately overwrought, doom-laden prose by the mysterious "Lemony Snicket" (a pseudonym for author Daniel Handler, who also appears as a character investigating a secret organization tangled up in the…

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