Tess of the D'Urbervilles

words removed
152,687
marks left
30,509
words a sentence
18.5
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: Fifty-Two Stories For Girls, Alfred H. Miles. More twins

Thomas Hardy on the shelf

2 books by Thomas Hardy are on the shelf. Its fingerprint is the 1st closest of the 2 to their average. Of the 623 other authors on the shelf, Thomas Hardy's punctuation is closest to Julian Hawthorne's.

Thomas Hardy's average fingerprint

Marks per 1,000 words, except words per sentence and dialogue (the share of words inside quotation marks).
This bookThomas Hardy's averageEvery book's median
Semicolons9.18.27.2
Commas68.470.076.6
Colons0.81.41.6
Exclamation marks6.85.82.8
Question marks4.85.93.7
Words per sentence18.516.517.0
Dialogue26%34%22%

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

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