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Dombey and Son

Charles Dickens (1812–1870)

Project Gutenberg #821 · EN · 354,937 words · ingested 26 May 2026

Hues

  • Algo: balanced tone, moderate vocabulary, measured rhythm
  • LLM: cold, mercantile, mournful, Victorian gravitas
  • 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
362,531
Sentences
17,978
Mean sentence length
20.2 words (std 19.4, p50 14, p90 46)
MTLD (vocab richness)
87.9
Type-token ratio
0.042
Commas / 1k
104.8
Periods / 1k
37.2
Semicolons / 1k
9.1
Colons / 1k
1.9
Question marks / 1k
5.0
Exclamation marks / 1k
7.3
Em-dashes / 1k
6.6
Parentheses / 1k
1.9

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