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The Early Short Fiction of Edith Wharton — Part 2

Edith Wharton (1862–1937)

Project Gutenberg #306 · EN · 43,870 words · ingested 25 May 2026

Hues

  • Algo: cool tone, rich vocabulary, measured rhythm
  • LLM: cool, restrained, ironically elegant, socially watchful
  • 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
45,117
Sentences
2,487
Mean sentence length
18.1 words (std 16.3, p50 14, p90 40)
MTLD (vocab richness)
96.2
Type-token ratio
0.140
Commas / 1k
68.3
Periods / 1k
43.1
Semicolons / 1k
7.0
Colons / 1k
3.3
Question marks / 1k
8.7
Exclamation marks / 1k
4.2
Em-dashes / 1k
11.2
Parentheses / 1k
0.7

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