Lord Jim

words removed
131,104
marks left
28,412
words a sentence
14.4
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: The Gilded Age, Mark Twain. More twins

Joseph Conrad on the shelf

3 books by Joseph Conrad are on the shelf. Its fingerprint is the 1st closest of the 3 to their average. Held out and guessed from its marks alone, the shelf takes it for Mark Twain. Of the 623 other authors on the shelf, Joseph Conrad's punctuation is closest to William John Locke's.

Joseph Conrad's average fingerprint

Joseph Conrad on the numbers page

Marks per 1,000 words, except words per sentence and dialogue (the share of words inside quotation marks).
This bookJoseph Conrad's averageEvery book's median
Semicolons6.65.27.2
Commas66.666.176.6
Colons1.31.41.6
Exclamation marks5.54.12.8
Question marks4.84.43.7
Words per sentence14.414.717.0
Dialogue21%20%22%

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

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