The Fairy Mythology

words removed
208,741
marks left
44,846
words a sentence
20.1
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 Edgar Allan Poe, Edgar Allan Poe. More twins

Thomas Keightley on the shelf

It's the only book by Thomas Keightley on the shelf. Of the 623 other authors on the shelf, Thomas Keightley's punctuation is closest to William James's.

William James'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
Semicolons9.37.2
Commas94.676.6
Colons2.41.6
Exclamation marks2.32.8
Question marks1.63.7
Words per sentence20.117.0
Dialogue19%22%

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

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