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Dombey and Son

Plaintext for Charles Dickens' "Dombey and Son"

(356805 words/1993221 characters)

Examples

Basic Examples

Retrieve the ResourceObject:

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ResourceObject["Dombey and Son"]
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View the data:

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TextCases[ResourceData["Dombey and Son"], "Paragraph"][[10]]
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Visualization

Comparison of sentence lengths:

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With[{sentences = TextSentences[ResourceData["Dombey and Son"]]}, Histogram[(Length /@ (TextWords /@ sentences)), PlotRange -> Full]]
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Show the most frequently used verbs:

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BarChart[TakeLargest[ Counts[TextCases[ResourceData["Dombey and Son"], "Verb"]], 20] // Reverse, BarOrigin -> Left, ChartLabels -> Automatic]
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Wolfram Research, "Dombey and Son" from the Wolfram Data Repository (2016)   https://doi.org/10.24097/wolfram.81707.data

Data Resource History

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Source Metadata

  • Title: Dombey and Son
  • Creator: Charles Dickens
  • Date: June 1846
  • Language: English

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Publisher Information

  • Publisher of Record: Wolfram Research