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Sinclair Lewis (1885–1951)

Project Gutenberg #543 · EN · 166,455 words · ingested 25 May 2026

Hues

  • Algo: warm tone, rich vocabulary, terse rhythm
  • LLM: cool, ironic, provincial, quietly suffocating
  • 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
173,517
Sentences
11,569
Mean sentence length
15.0 words (std 14.1, p50 11, p90 31)
MTLD (vocab richness)
103.6
Type-token ratio
0.082
Commas / 1k
63.5
Periods / 1k
53.0
Semicolons / 1k
4.8
Colons / 1k
2.1
Question marks / 1k
6.8
Exclamation marks / 1k
8.6
Em-dashes / 1k
11.7
Parentheses / 1k
1.3

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