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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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