Twenty Thousand Leagues Under the Seas

words removed
144,800
marks left
31,125
words a sentence
14.9
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 Brothers Karamazov, Fyodor Dostoyevsky. More twins

Jules Verne on the shelf

7 books by Jules Verne are on the shelf. Its fingerprint is the 7th closest of the 7 to their average. Held out and guessed from its marks alone, the shelf takes it for Fyodor Dostoyevsky. Of the 623 other authors on the shelf, Jules Verne's punctuation is closest to H. Rider Haggard's.

Jules Verne's average fingerprint

Jules Verne on the numbers page

Marks per 1,000 words, except words per sentence and dialogue (the share of words inside quotation marks).
This bookJules Verne's averageEvery book's median
Semicolons2.97.17.2
Commas78.884.076.6
Colons2.11.01.6
Exclamation marks6.95.82.8
Question marks5.55.43.7
Words per sentence14.916.517.0
Dialogue27%24%22%

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

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