The Weird of the Wanderer

words removed
82,144
marks left
17,760
words a sentence
19.6
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 Handbook to English Heraldry, Charles Boutell. More twins

Frederick Rolfe on the shelf

It's the only book by Frederick Rolfe on the shelf. Of the 623 other authors on the shelf, Frederick Rolfe's punctuation is closest to Charles Boutell's.

Charles Boutell'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
Semicolons6.77.2
Commas95.676.6
Colons9.51.6
Exclamation marks0.32.8
Question marks0.93.7
Words per sentence19.617.0
Dialogue15%22%

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

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