The Hero of the People

words removed
79,712
marks left
17,825
words a sentence
16.2
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 Copper House, Julius Regis. More twins

Alexandre Dumas on the shelf

5 books by Alexandre Dumas are on the shelf. Its fingerprint is the 5th closest of the 5 to their average. Held out and guessed from its marks alone, the shelf takes it for R. Austin Freeman. Of the 623 other authors on the shelf, Alexandre Dumas's punctuation is closest to Leopold Sacher-Masoch's.

Alexandre Dumas's average fingerprint

Alexandre Dumas on the numbers page

Marks per 1,000 words, except words per sentence and dialogue (the share of words inside quotation marks).
This bookAlexandre Dumas's averageEvery book's median
Semicolons8.411.07.2
Commas67.684.676.6
Colons5.51.91.6
Exclamation marks3.55.42.8
Question marks8.39.03.7
Words per sentence16.215.517.0
Dialogue51%49%22%

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

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