Lady Chatterley's Lover

words removed
118,576
marks left
31,594
words a sentence
10.5
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: The New Terror, Gaston Leroux. More twins

D. H. Lawrence on the shelf

It's the only book by D. H. Lawrence on the shelf. Of the 623 other authors on the shelf, D. H. Lawrence's punctuation is closest to Gaston Leroux's.

Gaston Leroux'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
Semicolons2.67.2
Commas78.876.6
Colons4.81.6
Exclamation marks13.92.8
Question marks8.03.7
Words per sentence10.517.0
Dialogue37%22%

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

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