The Phantom of the Opera

words removed
85,594
marks left
22,017
words a sentence
12.1
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: Crime and Punishment, Fyodor Dostoyevsky. More twins

Gaston Leroux on the shelf

4 books by Gaston Leroux are on the shelf. Its fingerprint is the 3rd closest of the 4 to their average. Held out and guessed from its marks alone, the shelf names Gaston Leroux as its author. Of the 623 other authors on the shelf, Gaston Leroux's punctuation is closest to William Stearns Davis's.

Gaston Leroux's average fingerprint

Gaston Leroux on the numbers page

Marks per 1,000 words, except words per sentence and dialogue (the share of words inside quotation marks).
This bookGaston Leroux's averageEvery book's median
Semicolons5.23.67.2
Commas74.968.776.6
Colons4.53.01.6
Exclamation marks16.18.72.8
Question marks8.17.13.7
Words per sentence12.114.417.0
Dialogue40%48%22%

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

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