The Memoirs of Admiral Lord Beresford

words removed
194,669
marks left
35,970
words a sentence
18.3
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 Underground Railroad, William Still. More twins

Charles William De la Poer Beresford Beresford on the shelf

It's the only book by Charles William De la Poer Beresford Beresford on the shelf. Of the 1187 other authors on the shelf, Charles William De la Poer Beresford Beresford's punctuation is closest to Emperor of the French Napoleon I's.

Emperor of the French Napoleon I'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
Semicolons8.27.6
Commas80.178.1
Colons1.31.8
Exclamation marks0.72.0
Question marks0.82.8
Words per sentence18.317.7
Dialogue11%18%

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

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