The Call of the Wild

words removed
32,132
marks left
5,271
words a sentence
18.7
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 War of the Worlds, H. G. Wells. More twins

Jack London on the shelf

3 books by Jack London are on the shelf. Its fingerprint is the 2nd closest of the 3 to their average. Held out and guessed from its marks alone, the shelf takes it for William James. Of the 623 other authors on the shelf, Jack London's punctuation is closest to Helen Keller's.

Jack London's average fingerprint

Jack London on the numbers page

Marks per 1,000 words, except words per sentence and dialogue (the share of words inside quotation marks).
This bookJack London's averageEvery book's median
Semicolons5.63.97.2
Commas76.468.076.6
Colons0.20.41.6
Exclamation marks1.31.32.8
Question marks0.91.73.7
Words per sentence18.716.017.0
Dialogue4%15%22%

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

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