A History of Art in Chaldæa & Assyria, Vol. 1 (of 2)

words removed
129,732
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20,616
words a sentence
18.7
most used mark
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Its punctuation fingerprint: each mark's share, on the same scale as every book on the shelf.

Its punctuation twin, the closest fingerprint on the shelf: Three Contributions to the Theory of Sex, Sigmund Freud. More twins

Georges Perrot on the shelf

It's the only book by Georges Perrot on the shelf. Of the 1187 other authors on the shelf, Georges Perrot's punctuation is closest to Henry Charles Lea's.

Henry Charles Lea's average fingerprint

Marks per 1,000 words, except words per sentence and dialogue (the share of words inside quotation marks).
This bookEvery book's median
Semicolons4.67.6
Commas61.778.1
Colons0.91.8
Exclamation marks0.12.0
Question marks0.42.8
Words per sentence18.717.7
Dialogue5%18%

Every mark in reading order, left to right, top to bottom. Sentence endings are pink.

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