Aesop's Fables

words removed
41,518
marks left
6,895
words a sentence
25.3
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: The Blue Fairy Book, Andrew Lang. More twins

Aesop on the shelf

4 books by Aesop are on the shelf. Its fingerprint is the 2nd closest of the 4 to their average. Held out and guessed from its marks alone, the shelf names Aesop as its author. Of the 623 other authors on the shelf, Aesop's punctuation is closest to Olive Harper's.

Aesop's average fingerprint

Aesop on the numbers page

Marks per 1,000 words, except words per sentence and dialogue (the share of words inside quotation marks).
This bookAesop's averageEvery book's median
Semicolons5.44.07.2
Commas73.466.076.6
Colons5.43.41.6
Exclamation marks2.62.52.8
Question marks2.62.63.7
Words per sentence25.321.017.0
Dialogue24%21%22%

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

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