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Four Short Stories By Emile Zola

Émile Zola (1840–1902)

Project Gutenberg #1069 · EN · 207,512 words · ingested 26 May 2026

Hues

  • Algo: warm tone, rich vocabulary, terse rhythm
  • LLM: gritty, naturalist, visceral, darkly human
  • 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
211,156
Sentences
13,279
Mean sentence length
15.9 words (std 11.8, p50 13, p90 32)
MTLD (vocab richness)
113.1
Type-token ratio
0.059
Commas / 1k
63.0
Periods / 1k
49.0
Semicolons / 1k
5.1
Colons / 1k
2.8
Question marks / 1k
4.2
Exclamation marks / 1k
9.6
Em-dashes / 1k
2.3
Parentheses / 1k
0.0

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