John Gayther's Garden and the Stories Told Therein

words removed
99,217
marks left
21,573
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: Adam Bede, George Eliot. More twins

Frank R. Stockton on the shelf

2 books by Frank R. Stockton are on the shelf. Its fingerprint is the 1st closest of the 2 to their average. Of the 1187 other authors on the shelf, Frank R. Stockton's punctuation is closest to Andrew Lang's.

Frank R. Stockton's average fingerprint

Marks per 1,000 words, except words per sentence and dialogue (the share of words inside quotation marks).
This bookFrank R. Stockton's averageEvery book's median
Semicolons9.57.87.6
Commas66.772.878.1
Colons1.71.61.8
Exclamation marks3.53.02.0
Question marks3.73.52.8
Words per sentence17.922.217.7
Dialogue91%46%18%

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

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