The Picture of Dorian Gray

words removed
79,750
marks left
17,003
words a sentence
11.9
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: His Last Bow, Arthur Conan Doyle. More twins

Oscar Wilde on the shelf

7 books by Oscar Wilde are on the shelf. Its fingerprint is the 1st closest of the 7 to their average. Held out and guessed from its marks alone, the shelf takes it for Arthur Conan Doyle. Of the 623 other authors on the shelf, Oscar Wilde's punctuation is closest to Marie Lion's.

Oscar Wilde's average fingerprint

Oscar Wilde on the numbers page

Marks per 1,000 words, except words per sentence and dialogue (the share of words inside quotation marks).
This bookOscar Wilde's averageEvery book's median
Semicolons2.03.87.2
Commas67.770.176.6
Colons0.51.91.6
Exclamation marks4.98.12.8
Question marks7.26.23.7
Words per sentence11.916.417.0
Dialogue49%21%22%

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

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