Lucian's True History

words removed
19,772
marks left
2,790
words a sentence
42.4
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 Nicomachean Ethics of Aristotle, Aristotle. More twins

of Samosata Lucian on the shelf

It's the only book by of Samosata Lucian on the shelf. Of the 1187 other authors on the shelf, of Samosata Lucian's punctuation is closest to Edmund Spenser's.

Edmund Spenser'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
Semicolons3.97.6
Commas86.978.1
Colons12.11.8
Exclamation marks0.22.0
Question marks0.72.8
Words per sentence42.417.7
Dialogue4%18%

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

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