Mosses from an Old Manse

words removed
158,594
marks left
26,209
words a sentence
23.5
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: At the Sign of the Cat and Racket, Honoré de Balzac. More twins

Nathaniel Hawthorne on the shelf

3 books by Nathaniel Hawthorne are on the shelf. Its fingerprint is the 1st closest of the 3 to their average. Held out and guessed from its marks alone, the shelf names Nathaniel Hawthorne as its author. Of the 623 other authors on the shelf, Nathaniel Hawthorne's punctuation is closest to Honoré de Balzac's.

Nathaniel Hawthorne's average fingerprint

Nathaniel Hawthorne on the numbers page

Marks per 1,000 words, except words per sentence and dialogue (the share of words inside quotation marks).
This bookNathaniel Hawthorne's averageEvery book's median
Semicolons7.96.87.2
Commas79.884.376.6
Colons0.20.31.6
Exclamation marks4.55.72.8
Question marks3.03.23.7
Words per sentence23.523.017.0
Dialogue17%17%22%

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

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