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The Touchstone

Edith Wharton (1862–1937)

Project Gutenberg #267 · EN · 26,573 words · ingested 26 May 2026

Hues

  • Algo: cool tone, rich vocabulary, measured rhythm
  • LLM: cool, ironic, morally weighted, restrained elegance
  • 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
27,403
Sentences
1,622
Mean sentence length
16.9 words (std 13.7, p50 13, p90 37)
MTLD (vocab richness)
92.0
Type-token ratio
0.156
Commas / 1k
50.3
Periods / 1k
48.7
Semicolons / 1k
8.8
Colons / 1k
1.2
Question marks / 1k
8.8
Exclamation marks / 1k
2.7
Em-dashes / 1k
10.5
Parentheses / 1k
0.1

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