Memoirs of Napoleon Bonaparte

words removed
494,851
marks left
80,605
words a sentence
21.2
most used mark
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Its punctuation fingerprint: each mark's share, on the same scale as every book on the shelf.

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It's the only book by Louis Antoine Fauvelet de Bourrienne on the shelf. Of the 623 other authors on the shelf, Louis Antoine Fauvelet de Bourrienne's punctuation is closest to Mary Prince's.

Mary Prince'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
Semicolons6.77.2
Commas66.576.6
Colons1.51.6
Exclamation marks1.92.8
Question marks1.73.7
Words per sentence21.217.0
Dialogue18%22%

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

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