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Buttered Side Down: Stories
Edna Ferber (1885–1968)
Project Gutenberg #352 · EN · 44,872 words · ingested 25 May 2026
Hues
- Algo: balanced tone, rich vocabulary, terse rhythm
- LLM: wry, working-class warmth, bittersweet American realism
- 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
- 46,721
- Sentences
- 3,258
- Mean sentence length
- 14.3 words (std 12.3, p50 11, p90 29)
- MTLD (vocab richness)
- 96.7
- Type-token ratio
- 0.134
- Commas / 1k
- 70.4
- Periods / 1k
- 59.3
- Semicolons / 1k
- 1.0
- Colons / 1k
- 1.2
- Question marks / 1k
- 6.0
- Exclamation marks / 1k
- 4.4
- Em-dashes / 1k
- 6.2
- Parentheses / 1k
- 1.4
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