Middlemarch

words removed
320,441
marks left
59,774
words a sentence
18.0
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 Wisdom of Father Brown, G. K. Chesterton. More twins

George Eliot on the shelf

3 books by George Eliot 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 G. K. Chesterton. Of the 623 other authors on the shelf, George Eliot's punctuation is closest to H. De Vere Stacpoole's.

George Eliot's average fingerprint

George Eliot on the numbers page

Marks per 1,000 words, except words per sentence and dialogue (the share of words inside quotation marks).
This bookGeorge Eliot's averageEvery book's median
Semicolons5.99.17.2
Commas64.675.176.6
Colons3.12.31.6
Exclamation marks1.81.82.8
Question marks3.83.83.7
Words per sentence18.022.017.0
Dialogue35%34%22%

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

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