A Wanderer in Venice

words removed
99,723
marks left
20,077
words a sentence
17.5
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: Main Currents in American Thought, Vernon Louis Parrington. More twins

E. V. Lucas on the shelf

2 books by E. V. Lucas are on the shelf. Its fingerprint is the 2nd closest of the 2 to their average. Of the 1187 other authors on the shelf, E. V. Lucas's punctuation is closest to Leo Wiener's.

E. V. Lucas's average fingerprint

Marks per 1,000 words, except words per sentence and dialogue (the share of words inside quotation marks).
This bookE. V. Lucas's averageEvery book's median
Semicolons8.57.07.6
Commas86.482.278.1
Colons2.73.51.8
Exclamation marks0.60.82.0
Question marks0.70.42.8
Words per sentence17.518.817.7
Dialogue10%7%18%
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