Anna Karenina

words removed
352,119
marks left
80,679
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: Twenty Thousand Leagues Under the Seas, Jules Verne. More twins

Leo Tolstoy on the shelf

4 books by Leo Tolstoy are on the shelf. Its fingerprint is the 3rd closest of the 4 to their average. Held out and guessed from its marks alone, the shelf takes it for Fyodor Dostoyevsky. Of the 623 other authors on the shelf, Leo Tolstoy's punctuation is closest to José Rizal's.

Leo Tolstoy's average fingerprint

Leo Tolstoy on the numbers page

Marks per 1,000 words, except words per sentence and dialogue (the share of words inside quotation marks).
This bookLeo Tolstoy's averageEvery book's median
Semicolons4.84.67.2
Commas88.081.576.6
Colons1.22.81.6
Exclamation marks4.94.12.8
Question marks6.74.93.7
Words per sentence16.218.617.0
Dialogue30%25%22%

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

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