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H. G. (Herbert George) Wells (1866–1946)

Project Gutenberg #718 · EN · 133,677 words · ingested 25 May 2026

Hues

  • Algo: warm tone, moderate vocabulary, terse rhythm
  • LLM: sardonic, expansive, Edwardian grey-smoke irony
  • 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
138,002
Sentences
8,715
Mean sentence length
15.8 words (std 14.7, p50 11, p90 35)
MTLD (vocab richness)
85.3
Type-token ratio
0.089
Commas / 1k
64.1
Periods / 1k
52.9
Semicolons / 1k
4.6
Colons / 1k
0.4
Question marks / 1k
4.8
Exclamation marks / 1k
6.1
Em-dashes / 1k
9.8
Parentheses / 1k
0.8

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