A Tale of Two Cities

words removed
137,434
marks left
32,546
words a sentence
16.2
most used mark
,

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: Dead Souls, Nikolai Vasilevich Gogol. More twins

Charles Dickens on the shelf

14 books by Charles Dickens are on the shelf. Its fingerprint is the 7th closest of the 14 to their average. Held out and guessed from its marks alone, the shelf takes it for Jules Verne. Of the 623 other authors on the shelf, Charles Dickens's punctuation is closest to Grant Allen's.

Charles Dickens's average fingerprint

Charles Dickens on the numbers page

Marks per 1,000 words, except words per sentence and dialogue (the share of words inside quotation marks).
This bookCharles Dickens's averageEvery book's median
Semicolons8.19.77.2
Commas95.595.476.6
Colons1.81.51.6
Exclamation marks6.97.02.8
Question marks6.65.83.7
Words per sentence16.216.317.0
Dialogue36%36%22%

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

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