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Persuasion

Plaintext for Jane Austen's "Persuasion"

(83345 words/466813 characters)

Examples

Basic Examples

View the text:

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TextCases[ResourceData["Persuasion"], "Paragraph"][[50]]
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Visualization

Show the most frequently used of proper nouns:

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BarChart[ TakeLargest[ Counts[TextCases[ResourceData["Persuasion"], "ProperNoun"]], 20] // Reverse, BarOrigin -> Left, ChartLabels -> Automatic]
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Show the distribution of sentence lengths:

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With[{sentences = TextSentences[ResourceData["Persuasion"]]}, Histogram[(Length /@ (TextWords /@ sentences)), PlotRange -> Full]]
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Wolfram Research, "Persuasion" from the Wolfram Data Repository (2016)   https://doi.org/10.24097/wolfram.82111.data

Data Resource History

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Source Metadata

  • Title: Persuasion
  • Creator: Jane Austen
  • Date: 1818
  • Language: English

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Publisher Information

  • Publisher of Record: Wolfram Research