Public-domain classics, read in full
Six sentences. The whole book.
We read each novel from the first page to the last, write six sentences of our own, and draw three plates from its text: the mood of the wording, who is named when, and who shares a paragraph with whom.
Oldest first. Thicker spine, longer book: together the six run to 798,732 words, and our scripts read every one. Compare them side by side
How we read a book
Each book page pairs our six sentences with three plates counted from the Project Gutenberg text. No study guide is copied, and no ending is revealed.
Plate I
The mood of the wording
We cut the novel into 40 equal slices and score the tone of every sentence. The line rises with brighter words and sinks with darker ones.
Shown: Frankenstein, where 14 of 40 slices score below neutral. Open the book
- Elizabeth Bennet752
- Mr Darcy370
- Jane Bennet293
Plate II
Who is named when
We count every name and title used for five central characters across 20 slices, so you can see who carries each stretch of the book.
Shown: Pride and Prejudice, where Elizabeth is named 752 times. Open the book
Plate III
Who shares a paragraph
For the eight most-named characters we count the paragraphs that name both of a pair. The thicker the line, the closer the tie.
Shown: Dracula, whose strongest tie is Arthur and Van Helsing, in 87 paragraphs. Open the book
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Jane Eyre
Charlotte Brontë, 1847
Charlotte Brontë's novel of a poor, fierce governess, read closely and charted from its own words.
Jane Eyre is the story of an orphan's long fight to be treated as an equal, told in a voice that insists her inner life matters as much as anyone's.
And five more sentences, with three plates.
The tone of the wording across 40 equal slices of the novel; the dotted line is neutral. It measures the words, not what happens.
Source: our count from the Project Gutenberg text (186,163 words), scored with VADER.