The Garden Party, and Other Stories

words removed
58,280
marks left
17,271
words a sentence
10.2
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 Invisible Man, H. G. Wells. More twins

Katherine Mansfield on the shelf

It's the only book by Katherine Mansfield on the shelf. Of the 623 other authors on the shelf, Katherine Mansfield's punctuation is closest to Adelaide Stirling's.

Adelaide Stirling'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
Semicolons5.57.2
Commas78.776.6
Colons0.51.6
Exclamation marks10.92.8
Question marks10.33.7
Words per sentence10.217.0
Dialogue24%22%

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

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