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The Life and Adventures of Nicholas Nickleby

Plaintext for Charles Dickens' "The Life and Adventures of Nicholas Nickleby"

(324129 words/1848361 characters)

Examples

Basic Examples

Retrieve the ResourceObject:

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ResourceObject["The Life and Adventures of Nicholas Nickleby"]
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View the data:

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TextCases[ ResourceData["The Life and Adventures of Nicholas Nickleby"], "Paragraph"][[10]]
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Visualization

Compare word lengths between works:

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PairedHistogram[ StringLength /@ TextWords[ ResourceData["The Life and Adventures of Nicholas Nickleby"]], StringLength /@ TextWords[ResourceData["Oliver Twist"]], Automatic]
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Create a bar chart of proper nouns:

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BarChart[ TakeLargest[ Counts[TextCases[ ResourceData["The Life and Adventures of Nicholas Nickleby"], "ProperNoun"]], 20] // Reverse, BarOrigin -> Left, ChartLabels -> Automatic]
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Wolfram Research, "The Life and Adventures of Nicholas Nickleby" from the Wolfram Data Repository (2017)   https://doi.org/10.24097/wolfram.93867.data

Data Resource History

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Source Metadata

  • Title: The Life and Adventures of Nicholas Nickleby
  • Creator: Charles Dickens
  • Date: March 1838
  • Language: English

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Publisher Information

  • Publisher of Record: Wolfram Research