The Mill on the Floss

words removed
209,395
marks left
45,482
words a sentence
23.3
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: Little Women, Louisa May Alcott. More twins

George Eliot on the shelf

3 books by George Eliot are on the shelf. Its fingerprint is the 2nd closest of the 3 to their average. Held out and guessed from its marks alone, the shelf takes it for C. N. Williamson. Of the 623 other authors on the shelf, George Eliot's punctuation is closest to H. De Vere Stacpoole's.

George Eliot's average fingerprint

George Eliot on the numbers page

Marks per 1,000 words, except words per sentence and dialogue (the share of words inside quotation marks).
This bookGeorge Eliot's averageEvery book's median
Semicolons13.09.17.2
Commas81.775.176.6
Colons0.52.31.6
Exclamation marks2.41.82.8
Question marks4.13.83.7
Words per sentence23.322.017.0
Dialogue34%34%22%

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

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