A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man

words removed
84,966
marks left
12,556
words a sentence
15.7
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: Oedipus King of Thebes, Sophocles. More twins

James Joyce on the shelf

3 books by James Joyce are on the shelf. Its fingerprint is the 3rd closest of the 3 to their average. Held out and guessed from its marks alone, the shelf takes it for William Shakespeare. Of the 623 other authors on the shelf, James Joyce's punctuation is closest to Euripides's.

James Joyce's average fingerprint

James Joyce on the numbers page

Marks per 1,000 words, except words per sentence and dialogue (the share of words inside quotation marks).
This bookJames Joyce's averageEvery book's median
Semicolons2.21.67.2
Commas50.254.376.6
Colons6.47.11.6
Exclamation marks5.15.12.8
Question marks6.56.93.7
Words per sentence15.713.417.0
Dialogue0%8%22%
  • Dubliners1914
  • A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man1918
  • Ulysses1922

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

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