The Great Gatsby

words removed
48,714
marks left
13,616
words a sentence
13.5
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 Gay Cockade, Temple Bailey. More twins

F. Scott Fitzgerald on the shelf

It's the only book by F. Scott Fitzgerald on the shelf. Of the 623 other authors on the shelf, F. Scott Fitzgerald's punctuation is closest to Temple Bailey's.

Temple Bailey'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
Semicolons1.57.2
Commas60.976.6
Colons1.71.6
Exclamation marks2.52.8
Question marks6.73.7
Words per sentence13.517.0
Dialogue27%22%

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

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