Silas Marner

words removed
72,156
marks left
15,169
words a sentence
24.7
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 Mill on the Floss, George Eliot. More twins

George Eliot on the shelf

3 books by George Eliot 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 George Eliot as its author. 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
Semicolons8.49.17.2
Commas78.975.176.6
Colons3.32.31.6
Exclamation marks1.11.82.8
Question marks3.63.83.7
Words per sentence24.722.017.0
Dialogue32%34%22%

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

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