Beasts and Super-Beasts

words removed
62,532
marks left
12,741
words a sentence
19.2
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: The Secret of Father Brown, G. K. Chesterton. More twins

Saki on the shelf

It's the only book by Saki on the shelf. Of the 623 other authors on the shelf, Saki's punctuation is closest to Lucy Ellen Guernsey's.

Lucy Ellen Guernsey's average fingerprint

Marks per 1,000 words, except words per sentence and dialogue (the share of words inside quotation marks).
This bookEvery book's median
Semicolons9.07.2
Commas59.276.6
Colons0.81.6
Exclamation marks1.82.8
Question marks4.73.7
Words per sentence19.217.0
Dialogue52%22%

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

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