Venus in Furs

words removed
42,383
marks left
10,401
words a sentence
14.4
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 King in Yellow, Robert W. Chambers. More twins

Leopold Sacher-Masoch on the shelf

It's the only book by Leopold Sacher-Masoch on the shelf. Of the 623 other authors on the shelf, Leopold Sacher-Masoch's punctuation is closest to Fergus Hume's.

Fergus Hume's average fingerprint

Marks per 1,000 words, except words per sentence and dialogue (the share of words inside quotation marks).
This bookEvery book's median
Semicolons4.97.2
Commas83.176.6
Colons1.01.6
Exclamation marks3.72.8
Question marks7.63.7
Words per sentence14.417.0
Dialogue43%22%

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

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