The Prairie Wife

words removed
55,820
marks left
12,331
words a sentence
14.2
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: Weird Tales, Volume 1, Number 1, March 1923, Various. More twins

Arthur Stringer on the shelf

It's the only book by Arthur Stringer on the shelf. Of the 623 other authors on the shelf, Arthur Stringer's punctuation is closest to Harry Johnston's.

Harry Johnston's average fingerprint

Marks per 1,000 words, except words per sentence and dialogue (the share of words inside quotation marks).
This bookEvery book's median
Semicolons0.67.2
Commas58.976.6
Colons0.61.6
Exclamation marks6.42.8
Question marks1.73.7
Words per sentence14.217.0
Dialogue6%22%

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

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