The Invisible Man

words removed
49,168
marks left
12,363
words a sentence
11.5
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 Garden Party, and Other Stories, Katherine Mansfield. More twins

H. G. Wells on the shelf

6 books by H. G. Wells are on the shelf. Its fingerprint is the 3rd closest of the 6 to their average. Held out and guessed from its marks alone, the shelf takes it for Arthur Conan Doyle. Of the 623 other authors on the shelf, H. G. Wells's punctuation is closest to Guy Thorne's.

H. G. Wells's average fingerprint

H. G. Wells on the numbers page

Marks per 1,000 words, except words per sentence and dialogue (the share of words inside quotation marks).
This bookH. G. Wells's averageEvery book's median
Semicolons2.64.17.2
Commas73.166.176.6
Colons0.20.51.6
Exclamation marks8.44.72.8
Question marks5.84.03.7
Words per sentence11.515.117.0
Dialogue46%36%22%

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

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