The Brothers Karamazov

words removed
352,593
marks left
85,627
words a sentence
13.9
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: Twenty Thousand Leagues Under the Seas, Jules Verne. More twins

Fyodor Dostoyevsky on the shelf

7 books by Fyodor Dostoyevsky are on the shelf. Its fingerprint is the 5th closest of the 7 to their average. Held out and guessed from its marks alone, the shelf names Fyodor Dostoyevsky as its author. Of the 623 other authors on the shelf, Fyodor Dostoyevsky's punctuation is closest to Leo Tolstoy's.

Fyodor Dostoyevsky's average fingerprint

Fyodor Dostoyevsky on the numbers page

Marks per 1,000 words, except words per sentence and dialogue (the share of words inside quotation marks).
This bookFyodor Dostoyevsky's averageEvery book's median
Semicolons3.26.37.2
Commas86.482.276.6
Colons1.31.61.6
Exclamation marks7.88.32.8
Question marks8.98.63.7
Words per sentence13.915.817.0
Dialogue56%53%22%

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

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