The Secret Agent

words removed
91,099
marks left
17,012
words a sentence
14.5
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: The Black Pearl, Marie Lion. More twins

Joseph Conrad on the shelf

3 books by Joseph Conrad are on the shelf. Its fingerprint is the 2nd closest of the 3 to their average. Held out and guessed from its marks alone, the shelf takes it for H. G. Wells. Of the 623 other authors on the shelf, Joseph Conrad's punctuation is closest to William John Locke's.

Joseph Conrad's average fingerprint

Joseph Conrad on the numbers page

Marks per 1,000 words, except words per sentence and dialogue (the share of words inside quotation marks).
This bookJoseph Conrad's averageEvery book's median
Semicolons3.25.27.2
Commas58.266.176.6
Colons1.91.41.6
Exclamation marks2.74.12.8
Question marks4.54.43.7
Words per sentence14.514.717.0
Dialogue25%20%22%

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

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