The History of Mary Prince, a West Indian Slave

words removed
27,612
marks left
5,085
words a sentence
19.6
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: Memoirs of Napoleon Bonaparte, Louis Antoine Fauvelet de Bourrienne. More twins

Mary Prince on the shelf

It's the only book by Mary Prince on the shelf. Of the 623 other authors on the shelf, Mary Prince's punctuation is closest to Louis Antoine Fauvelet de Bourrienne's.

Louis Antoine Fauvelet de Bourrienne'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
Semicolons11.77.2
Commas73.376.6
Colons3.11.6
Exclamation marks1.92.8
Question marks1.63.7
Words per sentence19.617.0
Dialogue18%22%

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

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