Manon Lescaut

words removed
62,502
marks left
11,567
words a sentence
21.6
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 Complete Works of Robert Burns, Robert Burns. More twins

abbé Prévost on the shelf

It's the only book by abbé Prévost on the shelf. Of the 623 other authors on the shelf, abbé Prévost's punctuation is closest to Mark Twain's.

Mark Twain'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
Semicolons11.57.2
Commas70.876.6
Colons2.81.6
Exclamation marks4.02.8
Question marks2.63.7
Words per sentence21.617.0
Dialogue22%22%

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

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