Madame Bovary

words removed
116,875
marks left
25,398
words a sentence
16.8
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 Jungle, Upton Sinclair. More twins

Gustave Flaubert on the shelf

It's the only book by Gustave Flaubert on the shelf. Of the 623 other authors on the shelf, Gustave Flaubert's punctuation is closest to Upton Sinclair's.

Upton Sinclair'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
Semicolons11.97.2
Commas87.576.6
Colons0.41.6
Exclamation marks9.22.8
Question marks4.33.7
Words per sentence16.817.0
Dialogue19%22%

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

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