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The Virginian: A Horseman of the Plains

Owen Wister (1860–1938)

Project Gutenberg #1298 · EN · 129,302 words · ingested 26 May 2026

Hues

  • Algo: cool tone, rich vocabulary, terse rhythm
  • LLM: sun-baked, laconic, rugged frontier romance
  • 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
132,934
Sentences
10,179
Mean sentence length
13.1 words (std 10.2, p50 10, p90 26)
MTLD (vocab richness)
99.0
Type-token ratio
0.070
Commas / 1k
65.6
Periods / 1k
65.2
Semicolons / 1k
5.5
Colons / 1k
1.0
Question marks / 1k
6.6
Exclamation marks / 1k
4.6
Em-dashes / 1k
4.9
Parentheses / 1k
0.7

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