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The Moon and Sixpence

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

Project Gutenberg #222 · EN · 74,911 words · ingested 26 May 2026

Hues

  • Algo: cool tone, moderate vocabulary, terse rhythm
  • LLM: dry, ironic, sun-bleached, sardonic melancholy
  • 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
76,379
Sentences
5,184
Mean sentence length
14.7 words (std 11.8, p50 11, p90 30)
MTLD (vocab richness)
81.9
Type-token ratio
0.090
Commas / 1k
51.8
Periods / 1k
61.9
Semicolons / 1k
6.0
Colons / 1k
0.9
Question marks / 1k
5.6
Exclamation marks / 1k
0.2
Em-dashes / 1k
1.1
Parentheses / 1k
0.5

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