Little Dorrit

words removed
341,742
marks left
77,634
words a sentence
18.4
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: David Copperfield, Charles Dickens. More twins

Charles Dickens on the shelf

20 books by Charles Dickens are on the shelf. Its fingerprint is the 16th closest of the 20 to their average. Held out and guessed from its marks alone, the shelf takes it for Robert E. Howard. Of the 1187 other authors on the shelf, Charles Dickens's punctuation is closest to W. B. Yeats's.

Charles Dickens's average fingerprint

Charles Dickens on the numbers page

Marks per 1,000 words, except words per sentence and dialogue (the share of words inside quotation marks).
This bookCharles Dickens's averageEvery book's median
Semicolons7.69.47.6
Commas88.595.478.1
Colons1.01.81.8
Exclamation marks6.16.22.0
Question marks5.75.32.8
Words per sentence18.417.517.7
Dialogue38%32%18%

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

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