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McTeague: A Story of San Francisco

Frank Norris (1870–1902)

Project Gutenberg #165 · EN · 112,631 words · ingested 25 May 2026

Hues

  • Algo: cool tone, moderate vocabulary, terse rhythm
  • LLM: brutal, earthy, naturalist, grim, visceral
  • 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
116,457
Sentences
8,364
Mean sentence length
13.9 words (std 11.3, p50 11, p90 28)
MTLD (vocab richness)
79.8
Type-token ratio
0.075
Commas / 1k
79.7
Periods / 1k
61.2
Semicolons / 1k
7.9
Colons / 1k
0.8
Question marks / 1k
7.3
Exclamation marks / 1k
3.2
Em-dashes / 1k
7.8
Parentheses / 1k
0.2

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