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The Old Curiosity Shop

Plaintext for Charles Dickens' "The Old Curiosity Shop"

(217394 words/1214976 characters)

Examples

Basic Examples

Retrieve the ResourceObject:

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ResourceObject["The Old Curiosity Shop"]
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View the data:

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TextCases[ResourceData["The Old Curiosity Shop"], "Paragraph"][[20]]
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Visualization

Comparison of sentence lengths:

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With[{sentences = TextSentences[ResourceData["The Old Curiosity Shop"]]}, 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["The Old Curiosity Shop"], "Verb"]], 20] // Reverse, BarOrigin -> Left, ChartLabels -> Automatic]
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Wolfram Research, "The Old Curiosity Shop" from the Wolfram Data Repository (2017)   https://doi.org/10.24097/wolfram.87217.data

Data Resource History

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Source Metadata

  • Title: The Old Curiosity Shop
  • Creator: Charles Dickens
  • Date: 25 April 1840
  • Language: English

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Publisher Information

  • Publisher of Record: Wolfram Research