How Joy Was Found

words removed
18,210
marks left
4,473
words a sentence
10.2
most used mark
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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: Plays by Anton Chekhov, Second Series, Anton Pavlovich Chekhov. More twins

Isobel Wylie Hutchison on the shelf

It's the only book by Isobel Wylie Hutchison on the shelf. Of the 623 other authors on the shelf, Isobel Wylie Hutchison's punctuation is closest to Anton Pavlovich Chekhov's.

Anton Pavlovich Chekhov'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
Semicolons5.57.2
Commas53.276.6
Colons2.31.6
Exclamation marks16.02.8
Question marks11.13.7
Words per sentence10.217.0
Dialogue5%22%

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

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