Dombey and Son

words removed
359,191
marks left
86,055
words a sentence
19.7
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: Oliver Twist, Vol. 2 (of 3), Charles Dickens. More twins

Charles Dickens on the shelf

20 books by Charles Dickens are on the shelf. Its fingerprint is the 3rd closest of the 20 to their average. Held out and guessed from its marks alone, the shelf takes it for Jacob Grimm. Of the 1187 other authors on the shelf, Charles Dickens's punctuation is closest to W. B. Yeats's.

Charles Dickens's average fingerprint

Charles Dickens on the numbers page

Marks per 1,000 words, except words per sentence and dialogue (the share of words inside quotation marks).
This bookCharles Dickens's averageEvery book's median
Semicolons9.29.47.6
Commas105.795.478.1
Colons2.01.81.8
Exclamation marks7.46.22.0
Question marks5.05.32.8
Words per sentence19.717.517.7
Dialogue32%32%18%

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

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