C14. Interruptions, silences and broken off lines. Count

Dialogue and voice. One line per book. Open a book for the full answer, charts and cited lines.

Book	Genre	Result
Treasure Island	Thriller and adventure	12 spoken lines break off with a dash or dots: 16.78 per 1,000 paragraphs of speech.
The Thirty-Nine Steps	Thriller and adventure	5 spoken lines break off with a dash or dots: 16.84 per 1,000 paragraphs of speech.
The Prisoner of Zenda	Thriller and adventure	38 spoken lines break off with a dash or dots: 32.04 per 1,000 paragraphs of speech.
Around the World in Eighty Days	Thriller and adventure	57 spoken lines break off with a dash or dots: 54.49 per 1,000 paragraphs of speech.
King Solomon's Mines	Thriller and adventure	4 spoken lines break off with a dash or dots: 4.51 per 1,000 paragraphs of speech.
The Hound of the Baskervilles	Crime and mystery	19 spoken lines break off with a dash or dots: 16.24 per 1,000 paragraphs of speech.
A Study in Scarlet	Crime and mystery	12 spoken lines break off with a dash or dots: 19.97 per 1,000 paragraphs of speech.
The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes	Crime and mystery	16 spoken lines break off with a dash or dots: 7.25 per 1,000 paragraphs of speech.
The Moonstone	Crime and mystery	37 spoken lines break off with a dash or dots: 19.3 per 1,000 paragraphs of speech.
The Woman in White	Crime and mystery	80 spoken lines break off with a dash or dots: 38.68 per 1,000 paragraphs of speech.
Pride and Prejudice	Romance	7 spoken lines break off with a dash or dots: 5.18 per 1,000 paragraphs of speech.
Persuasion	Romance	9 spoken lines break off with a dash or dots: 17.11 per 1,000 paragraphs of speech.
Emma	Romance	40 spoken lines break off with a dash or dots: 26.44 per 1,000 paragraphs of speech.
Jane Eyre	Romance	56 spoken lines break off with a dash or dots: 18.88 per 1,000 paragraphs of speech.
Dracula	Gothic and horror	46 spoken lines break off with a dash or dots: 41.48 per 1,000 paragraphs of speech.
Frankenstein	Gothic and horror	4 spoken lines break off with a dash or dots: 11.49 per 1,000 paragraphs of speech.
Strange Case of Dr Jekyll and Mr Hyde	Gothic and horror	4 spoken lines break off with a dash or dots: 16.13 per 1,000 paragraphs of speech.
The Picture of Dorian Gray	Gothic and horror	10 spoken lines break off with a dash or dots: 8.65 per 1,000 paragraphs of speech.
Wuthering Heights	Gothic and horror	28 spoken lines break off with a dash or dots: 19.9 per 1,000 paragraphs of speech.
The Turn of the Screw	Gothic and horror	27 spoken lines break off with a dash or dots: 38.85 per 1,000 paragraphs of speech.
The Time Machine	Science fiction	7 spoken lines break off with a dash or dots: 33.65 per 1,000 paragraphs of speech.
The War of the Worlds	Science fiction	12 spoken lines break off with a dash or dots: 44.44 per 1,000 paragraphs of speech.
The Invisible Man	Science fiction	84 spoken lines break off with a dash or dots: 94.92 per 1,000 paragraphs of speech.
Alice's Adventures in Wonderland	Fantasy and children's	48 spoken lines break off with a dash or dots: 70.38 per 1,000 paragraphs of speech.
The Wonderful Wizard of Oz	Fantasy and children's	1 spoken lines break off with a dash or dots: 1.35 per 1,000 paragraphs of speech.
The Secret Garden	Fantasy and children's	16 spoken lines break off with a dash or dots: 11.49 per 1,000 paragraphs of speech.
The Wind in the Willows	Fantasy and children's	34 spoken lines break off with a dash or dots: 57.14 per 1,000 paragraphs of speech.
Great Expectations	Literary	59 spoken lines break off with a dash or dots: 22.73 per 1,000 paragraphs of speech.
A Christmas Carol	Literary	1 spoken lines break off with a dash or dots: 2.27 per 1,000 paragraphs of speech.
The Great Gatsby	Literary	71 spoken lines break off with a dash or dots: 67.55 per 1,000 paragraphs of speech.
Heart of Darkness	Literary	5 spoken lines break off with a dash or dots: 45.87 per 1,000 paragraphs of speech.
Kidnapped	Thriller and adventure	14 spoken lines break off with a dash or dots: 15.91 per 1,000 paragraphs of speech.
The Count of Monte Cristo	Thriller and adventure	259 spoken lines break off with a dash or dots: 22.13 per 1,000 paragraphs of speech.
The Three Musketeers	Thriller and adventure	141 spoken lines break off with a dash or dots: 24.34 per 1,000 paragraphs of speech.
The Riddle of the Sands	Thriller and adventure	53 spoken lines break off with a dash or dots: 37.7 per 1,000 paragraphs of speech.
The Scarlet Pimpernel	Thriller and adventure	24 spoken lines break off with a dash or dots: 20.22 per 1,000 paragraphs of speech.
The Lost World	Thriller and adventure	16 spoken lines break off with a dash or dots: 20.67 per 1,000 paragraphs of speech.
Captain Blood	Thriller and adventure	75 spoken lines break off with a dash or dots: 50.37 per 1,000 paragraphs of speech.
Lady Audley's Secret	Crime and mystery	1 spoken lines break off with a dash or dots: 0.53 per 1,000 paragraphs of speech.
The Murders in the Rue Morgue	Crime and mystery	0 spoken lines break off with a dash or dots: 0.0 per 1,000 paragraphs of speech.
The Innocence of Father Brown	Crime and mystery	47 spoken lines break off with a dash or dots: 45.94 per 1,000 paragraphs of speech.
The Big Bow Mystery	Crime and mystery	10 spoken lines break off with a dash or dots: 17.61 per 1,000 paragraphs of speech.
The Leavenworth Case	Crime and mystery	164 spoken lines break off with a dash or dots: 68.53 per 1,000 paragraphs of speech.
The Red Thumb Mark	Crime and mystery	29 spoken lines break off with a dash or dots: 21.32 per 1,000 paragraphs of speech.
The Amateur Cracksman	Crime and mystery	19 spoken lines break off with a dash or dots: 18.96 per 1,000 paragraphs of speech.
The Secret Agent	Crime and mystery	51 spoken lines break off with a dash or dots: 52.31 per 1,000 paragraphs of speech.
Sense and Sensibility	Romance	16 spoken lines break off with a dash or dots: 15.46 per 1,000 paragraphs of speech.
North and South	Romance	60 spoken lines break off with a dash or dots: 25.35 per 1,000 paragraphs of speech.
Far from the Madding Crowd	Romance	56 spoken lines break off with a dash or dots: 23.65 per 1,000 paragraphs of speech.
The Enchanted April	Romance	75 spoken lines break off with a dash or dots: 91.46 per 1,000 paragraphs of speech.
The Sheik	Romance	21 spoken lines break off with a dash or dots: 36.27 per 1,000 paragraphs of speech.
Daddy Long Legs	Romance	0 spoken lines break off with a dash or dots: 0.0 per 1,000 paragraphs of speech.
Carmilla	Gothic and horror	1 spoken lines break off with a dash or dots: 3.08 per 1,000 paragraphs of speech.
The Castle of Otranto	Gothic and horror	64 spoken lines break off with a dash or dots: 111.89 per 1,000 paragraphs of speech.
The Phantom of the Opera	Gothic and horror	69 spoken lines break off with a dash or dots: 49.89 per 1,000 paragraphs of speech.
The Great God Pan	Gothic and horror	3 spoken lines break off with a dash or dots: 12.99 per 1,000 paragraphs of speech.
The Yellow Wallpaper	Gothic and horror	0 spoken lines break off with a dash or dots: 0.0 per 1,000 paragraphs of speech.
The Call of Cthulhu	Gothic and horror	1 spoken lines break off with a dash or dots: 47.62 per 1,000 paragraphs of speech.
The Island of Doctor Moreau	Science fiction	25 spoken lines break off with a dash or dots: 60.24 per 1,000 paragraphs of speech.
Journey to the Centre of the Earth	Science fiction	26 spoken lines break off with a dash or dots: 26.08 per 1,000 paragraphs of speech.
A Princess of Mars	Science fiction	3 spoken lines break off with a dash or dots: 10.83 per 1,000 paragraphs of speech.
Herland	Science fiction	19 spoken lines break off with a dash or dots: 27.1 per 1,000 paragraphs of speech.
Flatland	Science fiction	9 spoken lines break off with a dash or dots: 81.82 per 1,000 paragraphs of speech.
Erewhon	Science fiction	1 spoken lines break off with a dash or dots: 7.09 per 1,000 paragraphs of speech.
The Last Man	Science fiction	5 spoken lines break off with a dash or dots: 12.08 per 1,000 paragraphs of speech.
Through the Looking Glass	Fantasy and children's	62 spoken lines break off with a dash or dots: 78.98 per 1,000 paragraphs of speech.
A Little Princess	Fantasy and children's	22 spoken lines break off with a dash or dots: 21.09 per 1,000 paragraphs of speech.
The Jungle Book	Fantasy and children's	8 spoken lines break off with a dash or dots: 12.23 per 1,000 paragraphs of speech.
Five Children and It	Fantasy and children's	0 spoken lines break off with a dash or dots: 0.0 per 1,000 paragraphs of speech.
The Railway Children	Fantasy and children's	59 spoken lines break off with a dash or dots: 40.14 per 1,000 paragraphs of speech.
The Princess and the Goblin	Fantasy and children's	0 spoken lines break off with a dash or dots: 0.0 per 1,000 paragraphs of speech.
Peter and Wendy	Fantasy and children's	9 spoken lines break off with a dash or dots: 8.2 per 1,000 paragraphs of speech.
The Worm Ouroboros	Fantasy and children's	18 spoken lines break off with a dash or dots: 10.69 per 1,000 paragraphs of speech.
Anne of Green Gables	Fantasy and children's	11 spoken lines break off with a dash or dots: 9.08 per 1,000 paragraphs of speech.
Black Beauty	Fantasy and children's	1 spoken lines break off with a dash or dots: 1.74 per 1,000 paragraphs of speech.
Middlemarch	Literary	40 spoken lines break off with a dash or dots: 11.53 per 1,000 paragraphs of speech.
Tess of the d'Urbervilles	Literary	43 spoken lines break off with a dash or dots: 23.37 per 1,000 paragraphs of speech.
Mrs Dalloway	Literary	10 spoken lines break off with a dash or dots: 32.57 per 1,000 paragraphs of speech.
To the Lighthouse	Literary	6 spoken lines break off with a dash or dots: 29.27 per 1,000 paragraphs of speech.
Anna Karenina	Literary	384 spoken lines break off with a dash or dots: 76.51 per 1,000 paragraphs of speech.
Crime and Punishment	Literary	245 spoken lines break off with a dash or dots: 85.13 per 1,000 paragraphs of speech.
Madame Bovary	Literary	75 spoken lines break off with a dash or dots: 54.27 per 1,000 paragraphs of speech.
The Age of Innocence	Literary	144 spoken lines break off with a dash or dots: 98.5 per 1,000 paragraphs of speech.
Silas Marner	Literary	4 spoken lines break off with a dash or dots: 7.01 per 1,000 paragraphs of speech.
Adventures of Huckleberry Finn	Literary	60 spoken lines break off with a dash or dots: 43.42 per 1,000 paragraphs of speech.
Hamlet	Plays	0 spoken lines break off with a dash or dots: 0.0 per 1,000 paragraphs of speech.
Macbeth	Plays	0 spoken lines break off with a dash or dots: 0.0 per 1,000 paragraphs of speech.
Romeo and Juliet	Plays	0 spoken lines break off with a dash or dots: 0.0 per 1,000 paragraphs of speech.
Othello	Plays	1 spoken lines break off with a dash or dots: 76.92 per 1,000 paragraphs of speech.
A Midsummer Night's Dream	Plays	0 spoken lines break off with a dash or dots: 0.0 per 1,000 paragraphs of speech.
Twelfth Night	Plays	0 spoken lines break off with a dash or dots: 0.0 per 1,000 paragraphs of speech.
Doctor Faustus	Plays	2 spoken lines break off with a dash or dots: 18.18 per 1,000 paragraphs of speech.
The Importance of Being Earnest	Plays	0 spoken lines break off with a dash or dots: 0.0 per 1,000 paragraphs of speech.
A Doll's House	Plays	0 spoken lines break off with a dash or dots: 0.0 per 1,000 paragraphs of speech.
Hedda Gabler	Plays	0 spoken lines break off with a dash or dots: 0.0 per 1,000 paragraphs of speech.
Pygmalion	Plays	0 spoken lines break off with a dash or dots: 0.0 per 1,000 paragraphs of speech.
The School for Scandal	Plays	0 spoken lines break off with a dash or dots: 0.0 per 1,000 paragraphs of speech.

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