The Best Short Stories of 1920, and the Yearbook of the American Short Story

words removed
176,743
marks left
71,856
words a sentence
6.2
most used mark
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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 Works of Robert G. Ingersoll, Robert Green Ingersoll. More twins

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It's the only book by Edward J. O'Brien on the shelf. Of the 623 other authors on the shelf, Edward J. O'Brien's punctuation is closest to Robert Green Ingersoll's.

Robert Green Ingersoll's average fingerprint

Marks per 1,000 words, except words per sentence and dialogue (the share of words inside quotation marks).
This bookEvery book's median
Semicolons3.97.2
Commas73.176.6
Colons5.81.6
Exclamation marks3.52.8
Question marks4.23.7
Words per sentence6.217.0
Dialogue22%22%

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

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