Fifty-Two Stories For Girls

words removed
152,881
marks left
33,397
words a sentence
17.9
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: Treasure Island, Robert Louis Stevenson. More twins

Alfred H. Miles on the shelf

It's the only book by Alfred H. Miles on the shelf. Of the 623 other authors on the shelf, Alfred H. Miles's punctuation is closest to H. De Vere Stacpoole's.

H. De Vere Stacpoole'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
Semicolons7.67.2
Commas81.876.6
Colons1.21.6
Exclamation marks5.22.8
Question marks4.03.7
Words per sentence17.917.0
Dialogue32%22%

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

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