The Iron Heel

words removed
88,981
marks left
16,745
words a sentence
14.0
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: Tarzan of the Apes, Edgar Rice Burroughs. More twins

Jack London on the shelf

3 books by Jack London are on the shelf. Its fingerprint is the 3rd closest of the 3 to their average. Held out and guessed from its marks alone, the shelf takes it for H. G. Wells. Of the 623 other authors on the shelf, Jack London's punctuation is closest to Helen Keller's.

Jack London's average fingerprint

Jack London on the numbers page

Marks per 1,000 words, except words per sentence and dialogue (the share of words inside quotation marks).
This bookJack London's averageEvery book's median
Semicolons2.93.97.2
Commas63.368.076.6
Colons0.90.41.6
Exclamation marks1.31.32.8
Question marks3.41.73.7
Words per sentence14.016.017.0
Dialogue34%15%22%

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

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