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The Errand Boy; Or, How Phil Brent Won Success

Alger, Horatio, Jr. (1832–1899)

Project Gutenberg #462 · EN · 53,685 words · ingested 25 May 2026

Hues

  • Algo: cool tone, rich vocabulary, terse rhythm
  • LLM: sunny, earnest, brisk, moralistic, optimistic
  • 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
54,920
Sentences
4,857
Mean sentence length
11.3 words (std 8.7, p50 9, p90 23)
MTLD (vocab richness)
88.5
Type-token ratio
0.085
Commas / 1k
73.9
Periods / 1k
71.1
Semicolons / 1k
3.2
Colons / 1k
1.0
Question marks / 1k
12.1
Exclamation marks / 1k
5.1
Em-dashes / 1k
3.0
Parentheses / 1k
0.0

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