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Booth Tarkington (1869–1946)

Project Gutenberg #402 · EN · 57,382 words · ingested 25 May 2026

Hues

  • Algo: warm tone, rich vocabulary, terse rhythm
  • LLM: sunny, mischievous, small-town Americana, breezy
  • 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
59,232
Sentences
3,981
Mean sentence length
14.9 words (std 14.1, p50 10, p90 33)
MTLD (vocab richness)
94.6
Type-token ratio
0.134
Commas / 1k
77.0
Periods / 1k
47.7
Semicolons / 1k
7.2
Colons / 1k
2.4
Question marks / 1k
7.1
Exclamation marks / 1k
12.5
Em-dashes / 1k
12.8
Parentheses / 1k
1.5

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