The Three Musketeers

words removed
230,543
marks left
60,291
words a sentence
14.6
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: Twenty Years After, Alexandre Dumas. More twins

Alexandre Dumas on the shelf

5 books by Alexandre Dumas are on the shelf. Its fingerprint is the 3rd closest of the 5 to their average. Held out and guessed from its marks alone, the shelf names Alexandre Dumas as its author. Of the 623 other authors on the shelf, Alexandre Dumas's punctuation is closest to Leopold Sacher-Masoch's.

Alexandre Dumas's average fingerprint

Alexandre Dumas on the numbers page

Marks per 1,000 words, except words per sentence and dialogue (the share of words inside quotation marks).
This bookAlexandre Dumas's averageEvery book's median
Semicolons12.311.07.2
Commas93.584.676.6
Colons0.51.91.6
Exclamation marks8.25.42.8
Question marks8.59.03.7
Words per sentence14.615.517.0
Dialogue47%49%22%

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

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