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Nostromo

Plaintext for Joseph Conrad's "Nostromo"

(170862 words/967706 characters)

Examples

Basic Examples

Retrieve the ResourceObject:

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ResourceObject["Nostromo"]
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View the data:

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RandomChoice[TextCases[ResourceData["Nostromo"], "Paragraph"]]
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Visualization

Show the distribution of sentence lengths:

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With[{sentences = TextSentences[ResourceData["Nostromo"]]}, Histogram[(Length /@ (TextWords /@ sentences)), PlotRange -> Full]]
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Show the popularity of countries in a text:

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BarChart[TakeLargest[ Counts[Interpreter["Country"][ ToLowerCase /@ TextCases[ResourceData["Nostromo"], "Country"]]], 12] // Reverse, BarOrigin -> Left, ChartLabels -> Automatic]
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Wolfram Research, "Nostromo" from the Wolfram Data Repository (2016)   https://doi.org/10.24097/wolfram.44907.data

Data Resource History

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Source Metadata

  • Title: Nostromo
  • Creator: Joseph Conrad
  • Date: 1904
  • Language: English

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Publisher Information

  • Publisher of Record: Wolfram Research