The Rose of Old St. Louis

words removed
126,629
marks left
21,237
words a sentence
22.6
most used mark
,

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: Indian Fairy Tales, Joseph Jacobs. More twins

Mary Dillon on the shelf

It's the only book by Mary Dillon on the shelf. Of the 1187 other authors on the shelf, Mary Dillon's punctuation is closest to Leo Tolstoy's.

Leo Tolstoy'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
Semicolons5.27.6
Commas70.578.1
Colons3.11.8
Exclamation marks3.42.0
Question marks2.72.8
Words per sentence22.617.7
Dialogue27%18%

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

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