The Napoleon of Notting Hill

words removed
55,798
marks left
12,397
words a sentence
15.3
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: Landscape with Figures, Ronald Fraser. More twins

G. K. Chesterton on the shelf

13 books by G. K. Chesterton are on the shelf. Its fingerprint is the 7th closest of the 13 to their average. Held out and guessed from its marks alone, the shelf takes it for E. M. Forster. Of the 1187 other authors on the shelf, G. K. Chesterton's punctuation is closest to Charles Edward Russell's.

G. K. Chesterton's average fingerprint

G. K. Chesterton on the numbers page

Marks per 1,000 words, except words per sentence and dialogue (the share of words inside quotation marks).
This bookG. K. Chesterton's averageEvery book's median
Semicolons5.110.37.6
Commas76.557.778.1
Colons0.61.51.8
Exclamation marks3.41.12.0
Question marks6.63.02.8
Words per sentence15.320.517.7
Dialogue57%24%18%

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

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