Adventures of Huckleberry Finn

words removed
113,368
marks left
27,517
words a sentence
18.2
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: Silas Marner, George Eliot. More twins

Mark Twain on the shelf

11 books by Mark Twain are on the shelf. Its fingerprint is the 10th closest of the 11 to their average. Held out and guessed from its marks alone, the shelf takes it for George Eliot. Of the 623 other authors on the shelf, Mark Twain's punctuation is closest to Henry Harland's.

Mark Twain's average fingerprint

Mark Twain on the numbers page

Marks per 1,000 words, except words per sentence and dialogue (the share of words inside quotation marks).
This bookMark Twain's averageEvery book's median
Semicolons13.810.67.2
Commas71.368.576.6
Colons3.82.21.6
Exclamation marks4.64.72.8
Question marks6.53.63.7
Words per sentence18.219.117.0
Dialogue35%25%22%

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

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