The Works of Robert Louis Stevenson - Swanston Edition, Vol. 20

words removed
135,703
marks left
32,176
words a sentence
15.6
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: A Tale of Two Cities, Charles Dickens. More twins

Robert Louis Stevenson on the shelf

6 books by Robert Louis Stevenson 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 Robert Louis Stevenson as its author. Of the 623 other authors on the shelf, Robert Louis Stevenson's punctuation is closest to Elizabeth Cleghorn Gaskell's.

Robert Louis Stevenson's average fingerprint

Robert Louis Stevenson on the numbers page

Marks per 1,000 words, except words per sentence and dialogue (the share of words inside quotation marks).
This bookRobert Louis Stevenson's averageEvery book's median
Semicolons11.514.57.2
Commas78.581.976.6
Colons3.11.91.6
Exclamation marks7.65.12.8
Question marks5.64.43.7
Words per sentence15.618.617.0
Dialogue37%28%22%

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

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