Three Ghost Stories

words removed
21,315
marks left
4,257
words a sentence
20.5
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 Rose of Old St. Louis, Mary Dillon. More twins

Charles Dickens on the shelf

20 books by Charles Dickens are on the shelf. Its fingerprint is the 4th closest of the 20 to their average. Held out and guessed from its marks alone, the shelf takes it for Leo Tolstoy. Of the 1187 other authors on the shelf, Charles Dickens's punctuation is closest to W. B. Yeats's.

Charles Dickens's average fingerprint

Charles Dickens on the numbers page

Marks per 1,000 words, except words per sentence and dialogue (the share of words inside quotation marks).
This bookCharles Dickens's averageEvery book's median
Semicolons5.79.47.6
Commas92.895.478.1
Colons1.71.81.8
Exclamation marks3.66.22.0
Question marks5.15.32.8
Words per sentence20.517.517.7
Dialogue14%32%18%

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

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