North and South

words removed
183,566
marks left
41,965
words a sentence
15.1
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 Blue Lagoon, H. De Vere Stacpoole. More twins

Elizabeth Cleghorn Gaskell on the shelf

2 books by Elizabeth Cleghorn Gaskell are on the shelf. Its fingerprint is the 2nd closest of the 2 to their average. Of the 623 other authors on the shelf, Elizabeth Cleghorn Gaskell's punctuation is closest to Robert Louis Stevenson's.

Elizabeth Cleghorn Gaskell's average fingerprint

Marks per 1,000 words, except words per sentence and dialogue (the share of words inside quotation marks).
This bookElizabeth Cleghorn Gaskell's averageEvery book's median
Semicolons11.912.87.2
Commas74.474.176.6
Colons1.61.41.6
Exclamation marks6.25.42.8
Question marks4.83.63.7
Words per sentence15.120.417.0
Dialogue47%37%22%
  • Cranford1853
  • North and South1854

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

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