The Sea-gull

words removed
19,125
marks left
4,907
words a sentence
8.2
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: Love's Labour's Lost, William Shakespeare. More twins

Anton Pavlovich Chekhov on the shelf

3 books by Anton Pavlovich Chekhov are on the shelf. Its fingerprint is the 1st closest of the 3 to their average. Held out and guessed from its marks alone, the shelf names Anton Pavlovich Chekhov as its author. Of the 623 other authors on the shelf, Anton Pavlovich Chekhov's punctuation is closest to Oscar Wilde's.

Anton Pavlovich Chekhov's average fingerprint

Anton Pavlovich Chekhov on the numbers page

Marks per 1,000 words, except words per sentence and dialogue (the share of words inside quotation marks).
This bookAnton Pavlovich Chekhov's averageEvery book's median
Semicolons6.56.47.2
Commas61.473.376.6
Colons1.11.71.6
Exclamation marks10.014.42.8
Question marks11.410.33.7
Words per sentence8.210.217.0
Dialogue2%12%22%

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

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