Memoirs of Extraordinary Popular Delusions and the Madness of Crowds

words removed
280,668
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48,361
words a sentence
22.0
most used mark
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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 Golden Bough, James George Frazer. More twins

Charles Mackay on the shelf

It's the only book by Charles Mackay on the shelf. Of the 623 other authors on the shelf, Charles Mackay's punctuation is closest to Frederick Douglass's.

Frederick Douglass'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
Semicolons10.97.2
Commas88.976.6
Colons1.01.6
Exclamation marks1.32.8
Question marks0.53.7
Words per sentence22.017.0
Dialogue13%22%

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

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