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The Early Short Fiction of Edith Wharton — Part 1

Edith Wharton (1862–1937)

Project Gutenberg #295 · EN · 42,382 words · ingested 25 May 2026

Hues

  • Algo: cool tone, rich vocabulary, measured rhythm
  • LLM: restrained, gothic, ornate, cool melancholy
  • 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
43,726
Sentences
2,572
Mean sentence length
17.0 words (std 13.9, p50 13, p90 35)
MTLD (vocab richness)
88.2
Type-token ratio
0.131
Commas / 1k
57.9
Periods / 1k
47.8
Semicolons / 1k
8.3
Colons / 1k
3.9
Question marks / 1k
8.5
Exclamation marks / 1k
3.9
Em-dashes / 1k
12.5
Parentheses / 1k
0.4

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