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Emma McChesney and Co.

Edna Ferber (1885–1968)

Project Gutenberg #453 · EN · 41,747 words · ingested 25 May 2026

Hues

  • Algo: warm tone, rich vocabulary, terse rhythm
  • LLM: brisk, warm, wry, commercially spirited, womanly wit
  • 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
43,893
Sentences
3,404
Mean sentence length
12.9 words (std 10.2, p50 10, p90 25)
MTLD (vocab richness)
98.8
Type-token ratio
0.128
Commas / 1k
80.6
Periods / 1k
63.9
Semicolons / 1k
2.3
Colons / 1k
1.3
Question marks / 1k
6.0
Exclamation marks / 1k
7.4
Em-dashes / 1k
11.2
Parentheses / 1k
0.3

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