Twenty Years After

words removed
243,561
marks left
69,134
words a sentence
13.7
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 Three Musketeers, Alexandre Dumas. More twins

Alexandre Dumas on the shelf

5 books by Alexandre Dumas are on the shelf. Its fingerprint is the 2nd closest of the 5 to their average. Held out and guessed from its marks alone, the shelf names Alexandre Dumas as its author. Of the 623 other authors on the shelf, Alexandre Dumas's punctuation is closest to Leopold Sacher-Masoch's.

Alexandre Dumas's average fingerprint

Alexandre Dumas on the numbers page

Marks per 1,000 words, except words per sentence and dialogue (the share of words inside quotation marks).
This bookAlexandre Dumas's averageEvery book's median
Semicolons12.111.07.2
Commas90.084.676.6
Colons1.21.91.6
Exclamation marks9.45.42.8
Question marks10.09.03.7
Words per sentence13.715.517.0
Dialogue53%49%22%

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

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