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Penrod and Sam

Booth Tarkington (1869–1946)

Project Gutenberg #1158 · EN · 66,455 words · ingested 26 May 2026

Hues

  • Algo: warm tone, moderate vocabulary, terse rhythm
  • LLM: sunny, mischievous, small-town boyhood warmth
  • Crowd: not derived yet — placeholder colour
  • Blend: Blended 40% algorithmic + 60% llm

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Bar heights are the relative frequency of the 28 most common English function words — a small, stable per-book signature.

Stylometry

Words
68,496
Sentences
4,660
Mean sentence length
14.7 words (std 12.9, p50 11, p90 33)
MTLD (vocab richness)
86.7
Type-token ratio
0.109
Commas / 1k
77.8
Periods / 1k
49.0
Semicolons / 1k
7.3
Colons / 1k
1.3
Question marks / 1k
6.8
Exclamation marks / 1k
12.2
Em-dashes / 1k
8.1
Parentheses / 1k
1.2

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