The Corsair

words removed
9,348
marks left
5,016
words a sentence
5.0
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 Prairie Wife, Arthur Stringer. More twins

William Brough on the shelf

It's the only book by William Brough on the shelf. Of the 623 other authors on the shelf, William Brough's punctuation is closest to Arthur Stringer's.

Arthur Stringer'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
Semicolons13.47.2
Commas107.276.6
Colons5.61.6
Exclamation marks33.92.8
Question marks14.83.7
Words per sentence5.017.0
Dialogue3%22%

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

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