The Passionate Friends

words removed
105,451
marks left
20,458
words a sentence
17.0
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: The Air Pirate, Guy Thorne. More twins

H. G. Wells on the shelf

6 books by H. G. Wells are on the shelf. Its fingerprint is the 2nd closest of the 6 to their average. Held out and guessed from its marks alone, the shelf names H. G. Wells as its author. 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
Semicolons3.54.17.2
Commas56.866.176.6
Colons0.20.51.6
Exclamation marks3.14.72.8
Question marks3.84.03.7
Words per sentence17.015.117.0
Dialogue23%36%22%

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

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