Dead Souls

words removed
143,784
marks left
28,963
words a sentence
19.9
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: A Tale of Two Cities, Charles Dickens. More twins

Nikolai Vasilevich Gogol on the shelf

It's the only book by Nikolai Vasilevich Gogol on the shelf. Of the 623 other authors on the shelf, Nikolai Vasilevich Gogol's punctuation is closest to William Ralston Shedden Ralston's.

William Ralston Shedden Ralston'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
Semicolons4.67.2
Commas77.976.6
Colons2.11.6
Exclamation marks5.52.8
Question marks6.43.7
Words per sentence19.917.0
Dialogue36%22%

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

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