Lucius Davoren

words removed
70,358
marks left
14,972
words a sentence
16.7
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 Pickwick Papers, Charles Dickens. More twins

M. E. Braddon on the shelf

3 books by M. E. Braddon are on the shelf. Its fingerprint is the 3rd closest of the 3 to their average. Held out and guessed from its marks alone, the shelf takes it for Robert E. Howard. Of the 623 other authors on the shelf, M. E. Braddon's punctuation is closest to Mark Twain's.

M. E. Braddon's average fingerprint

M. E. Braddon on the numbers page

Marks per 1,000 words, except words per sentence and dialogue (the share of words inside quotation marks).
This bookM. E. Braddon's averageEvery book's median
Semicolons8.310.67.2
Commas70.372.776.6
Colons0.30.61.6
Exclamation marks2.43.12.8
Question marks5.65.13.7
Words per sentence16.719.217.0
Dialogue53%44%22%

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

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