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Of Human Bondage

W. Somerset (William Somerset) Maugham (1874–1965)

Project Gutenberg #351 · EN · 259,446 words · ingested 26 May 2026

Hues

  • Algo: cool tone, moderate vocabulary, measured rhythm
  • LLM: grey, aching, stoic, quietly despairing
  • 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
265,032
Sentences
16,498
Mean sentence length
16.1 words (std 13.4, p50 12, p90 33)
MTLD (vocab richness)
82.6
Type-token ratio
0.046
Commas / 1k
52.0
Periods / 1k
57.2
Semicolons / 1k
8.4
Colons / 1k
2.5
Question marks / 1k
4.3
Exclamation marks / 1k
0.6
Em-dashes / 1k
0.6
Parentheses / 1k
0.5

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