Nicholas Nickleby

words removed
326,377
marks left
87,300
words a sentence
17.2
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: David Copperfield, Charles Dickens. More twins

Charles Dickens on the shelf

14 books by Charles Dickens are on the shelf. Its fingerprint is the 12th closest of the 14 to their average. Held out and guessed from its marks alone, the shelf takes it for Robert E. Howard. Of the 623 other authors on the shelf, Charles Dickens's punctuation is closest to Grant Allen's.

Charles Dickens's average fingerprint

Charles Dickens on the numbers page

Marks per 1,000 words, except words per sentence and dialogue (the share of words inside quotation marks).
This bookCharles Dickens's averageEvery book's median
Semicolons9.99.77.2
Commas106.295.476.6
Colons1.21.51.6
Exclamation marks6.77.02.8
Question marks6.15.83.7
Words per sentence17.216.317.0
Dialogue41%36%22%

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

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