The Wisdom of Father Brown

words removed
72,464
marks left
14,719
words a sentence
19.1
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: The Innocence of Father Brown, G. K. Chesterton. More twins

G. K. Chesterton on the shelf

6 books by G. K. Chesterton are on the shelf. Its fingerprint is the 2nd closest of the 6 to their average. Held out and guessed from its marks alone, the shelf names G. K. Chesterton as its author. Of the 623 other authors on the shelf, G. K. Chesterton's punctuation is closest to Una L. Silberrad's.

G. K. Chesterton's average fingerprint

G. K. Chesterton on the numbers page

Marks per 1,000 words, except words per sentence and dialogue (the share of words inside quotation marks).
This bookG. K. Chesterton's averageEvery book's median
Semicolons10.69.87.2
Commas64.166.976.6
Colons2.41.61.6
Exclamation marks1.81.72.8
Question marks4.74.23.7
Words per sentence19.120.117.0
Dialogue49%40%22%

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

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