Grimms' Fairy Tales

words removed
101,643
marks left
21,082
words a sentence
22.3
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: Shakespeare's Sonnets, William Shakespeare. More twins

Jacob Grimm on the shelf

It's the only book by Jacob Grimm on the shelf. Of the 623 other authors on the shelf, Jacob Grimm's punctuation is closest to Benjamin Disraeli's.

Benjamin Disraeli'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
Semicolons12.47.2
Commas86.176.6
Colons7.11.6
Exclamation marks5.62.8
Question marks4.43.7
Words per sentence22.317.0
Dialogue32%22%

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

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