C2. Each character's number of lines and share of speech. Both

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	Long John Silver speaks most, with 63% of attributed speech.
The Thirty-Nine Steps	Thriller and adventure	General Royer speaks most, with 45% of attributed speech.
The Prisoner of Zenda	Thriller and adventure	Colonel Sapt speaks most, with 50% of attributed speech.
Around the World in Eighty Days	Thriller and adventure	Phileas Fogg speaks most, with 28% of attributed speech.
King Solomon's Mines	Thriller and adventure	Sir Henry Curtis speaks most, with 39% of attributed speech.
The Hound of the Baskervilles	Crime and mystery	Sherlock Holmes speaks most, with 63% of attributed speech.
A Study in Scarlet	Crime and mystery	Sherlock Holmes speaks most, with 50% of attributed speech.
The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes	Crime and mystery	Sherlock Holmes speaks most, with 91% of attributed speech.
The Moonstone	Crime and mystery	Sergeant Cuff speaks most, with 39% of attributed speech.
The Woman in White	Crime and mystery	Count Fosco speaks most, with 24% of attributed speech.
Pride and Prejudice	Romance	Elizabeth Bennet speaks most, with 38% of attributed speech.
Persuasion	Romance	Anne Elliot speaks most, with 39% of attributed speech.
Emma	Romance	Emma Woodhouse speaks most, with 50% of attributed speech.
Jane Eyre	Romance	Mr. Rochester speaks most, with 26% of attributed speech.
Dracula	Gothic and horror	Professor Abraham Van Helsing speaks most, with 47% of attributed speech.
Frankenstein	Gothic and horror	Elizabeth Lavenza speaks most, with 42% of attributed speech.
Strange Case of Dr Jekyll and Mr Hyde	Gothic and horror	Mr. Utterson speaks most, with 42% of attributed speech.
The Picture of Dorian Gray	Gothic and horror	Lord Henry Wotton speaks most, with 51% of attributed speech.
Wuthering Heights	Gothic and horror	Catherine Earnshaw speaks most, with 38% of attributed speech.
The Turn of the Screw	Gothic and horror	Mrs. Grose speaks most, with 72% of attributed speech.
The Time Machine	Science fiction	Time Traveller speaks most, with 48% of attributed speech.
The War of the Worlds	Science fiction	The Narrator's younger brother speaks most, with 51% of attributed speech.
The Invisible Man	Science fiction	Dr. Kemp speaks most, with 30% of attributed speech.
Alice's Adventures in Wonderland	Fantasy and children's	Alice speaks most, with 62% of attributed speech.
The Wonderful Wizard of Oz	Fantasy and children's	Dorothy speaks most, with 28% of attributed speech.
The Secret Garden	Fantasy and children's	Mary Lennox speaks most, with 35% of attributed speech.
The Wind in the Willows	Fantasy and children's	Rat speaks most, with 42% of attributed speech.
Great Expectations	Literary	Joe Gargery speaks most, with 30% of attributed speech.
A Christmas Carol	Literary	Ebenezer Scrooge speaks most, with 84% of attributed speech.
The Great Gatsby	Literary	Tom Buchanan speaks most, with 31% of attributed speech.
Heart of Darkness	Literary	Dialogue comprises 18.2 percent of the text. Marlow dominates speech as the narrator. Kurtz speaks little but powerfully. The Russian trader speaks at length in Chapter 2. The Intended speaks briefly in Chapter 3. …
Kidnapped	Thriller and adventure	Alan Breck Stewart speaks most, with 66% of attributed speech.
The Count of Monte Cristo	Thriller and adventure	Edmond Dantès speaks most, with 23% of attributed speech.
The Three Musketeers	Thriller and adventure	D'Artagnan speaks most, with 31% of attributed speech.
The Riddle of the Sands	Thriller and adventure	Davies speaks most, with 83% of attributed speech.
The Scarlet Pimpernel	Thriller and adventure	Chauvelin speaks most, with 24% of attributed speech.
The Lost World	Thriller and adventure	Professor George Edward Challenger speaks most, with 38% of attributed speech.
Captain Blood	Thriller and adventure	Peter Blood speaks most, with 62% of attributed speech.
Lady Audley's Secret	Crime and mystery	Robert Audley speaks most, with 49% of attributed speech.
The Murders in the Rue Morgue	Crime and mystery	C. Auguste Dupin speaks most, with 100% of attributed speech.
The Innocence of Father Brown	Crime and mystery	Father Brown speaks most, with 58% of attributed speech.
The Big Bow Mystery	Crime and mystery	Denzil Cantercot speaks most, with 34% of attributed speech.
The Leavenworth Case	Crime and mystery	Mr. Gryce speaks most, with 40% of attributed speech.
The Red Thumb Mark	Crime and mystery	Dr. Thorndyke speaks most, with 56% of attributed speech.
The Amateur Cracksman	Crime and mystery	A. J. Raffles speaks most, with 85% of attributed speech.
The Secret Agent	Crime and mystery	Ossipon speaks most, with 29% of attributed speech.
Sense and Sensibility	Romance	Elinor Dashwood speaks most, with 36% of attributed speech.
North and South	Romance	Margaret Hale speaks most, with 48% of attributed speech.
Far from the Madding Crowd	Romance	Gabriel Oak speaks most, with 21% of attributed speech.
The Enchanted April	Romance	Mrs. Wilkins speaks most, with 34% of attributed speech.
The Sheik	Romance	Diana Mayo speaks most, with 33% of attributed speech.
Daddy Long Legs	Romance	Dialogue share is 0.0 percent. The novel is entirely epistolary, composed of Jerusha's letters to her benefactor. No direct dialogue or conversation appears in the text.
Carmilla	Gothic and horror	Laura's father speaks most, with 51% of attributed speech.
The Castle of Otranto	Gothic and horror	Manfred speaks most, with 28% of attributed speech.
The Phantom of the Opera	Gothic and horror	Raoul de Chagny speaks most, with 32% of attributed speech.
The Great God Pan	Gothic and horror	Villiers speaks most, with 55% of attributed speech.
The Yellow Wallpaper	Gothic and horror	Dialogue share is 6.5 percent of the text. John speaks rarely and dismissively. Jennie speaks occasionally in support of John. The narrator's voice dominates through journal entries and internal observation rather …
The Call of Cthulhu	Gothic and horror	Dialogue share is 1.8 percent. Most speech is attributed to Legrasse (Section 2) and Johansen (Section 4, via manuscript). The narrator dominates through first person narration. Direct dialogue is minimal; most …
The Island of Doctor Moreau	Science fiction	Montgomery speaks most, with 40% of attributed speech.
Journey to the Centre of the Earth	Science fiction	Professor Hardwigg speaks most, with 93% of attributed speech.
A Princess of Mars	Science fiction	Tars Tarkas speaks most, with 26% of attributed speech.
Herland	Science fiction	Terry O. Nicholson speaks most, with 45% of attributed speech.
Flatland	Science fiction	Sphere speaks most, with 54% of attributed speech.
Erewhon	Science fiction	Yram speaks most, with 100% of attributed speech.
The Last Man	Science fiction	Raymond speaks most, with 32% of attributed speech.
Through the Looking Glass	Fantasy and children's	Alice speaks most, with 64% of attributed speech.
A Little Princess	Fantasy and children's	Sara Crewe speaks most, with 46% of attributed speech.
The Jungle Book	Fantasy and children's	Mowgli speaks most, with 29% of attributed speech.
Five Children and It	Fantasy and children's	Dialogue share is very low at 0.4 percent. Most chapters are narration with sparse direct speech. Chapter 6 has more dialogue as Robert meets Sir Wulfric. Chapter 11 has more dialogue as the children negotiate with …
The Railway Children	Fantasy and children's	Roberta speaks most, with 29% of attributed speech.
The Princess and the Goblin	Fantasy and children's	Dialogue share is 0.001 (very low). Most speech is reported or summarised rather than shown in full. Irene and Curdie speak most; the grandmother speaks rarely but memorably. The goblin king speaks in Chapter 9. Most …
Peter and Wendy	Fantasy and children's	Wendy Darling speaks most, with 27% of attributed speech.
The Worm Ouroboros	Fantasy and children's	Lord Juss speaks most, with 19% of attributed speech.
Anne of Green Gables	Fantasy and children's	Anne Shirley speaks most, with 49% of attributed speech.
Black Beauty	Fantasy and children's	John Manly speaks most, with 32% of attributed speech.
Middlemarch	Literary	Dorothea Brooke speaks most, with 16% of attributed speech.
Tess of the d'Urbervilles	Literary	Tess Durbeyfield speaks most, with 28% of attributed speech.
Mrs Dalloway	Literary	Clarissa Dalloway speaks most, with 25% of attributed speech.
To the Lighthouse	Literary	William Bankes speaks most, with 37% of attributed speech.
Anna Karenina	Literary	Konstantin Levin speaks most, with 26% of attributed speech.
Crime and Punishment	Literary	Raskolnikov speaks most, with 26% of attributed speech.
Madame Bovary	Literary	Emma Bovary speaks most, with 25% of attributed speech.
The Age of Innocence	Literary	Newland Archer speaks most, with 31% of attributed speech.
Silas Marner	Literary	Godfrey Cass speaks most, with 18% of attributed speech.
Adventures of Huckleberry Finn	Literary	Jim speaks most, with 52% of attributed speech.
Hamlet	Plays	Hamlet speaks most, with 41% of attributed speech.
Macbeth	Plays	Macbeth speaks most, with 34% of attributed speech.
Romeo and Juliet	Plays	Romeo speaks most, with 18% of attributed speech.
Othello	Plays	Iago speaks most, with 32% of attributed speech.
A Midsummer Night's Dream	Plays	Helena speaks most, with 12% of attributed speech.
Twelfth Night	Plays	Sir Toby speaks most, with 15% of attributed speech.
Doctor Faustus	Plays	Faustus speaks most, with 56% of attributed speech.
The Importance of Being Earnest	Plays	Jack speaks most, with 22% of attributed speech.
A Doll's House	Plays	Nora speaks most, with 46% of attributed speech.
Hedda Gabler	Plays	Mrs speaks most, with 50% of attributed speech.
Pygmalion	Plays	Higgins speaks most, with 28% of attributed speech.
The School for Scandal	Plays	Sir Peter speaks most, with 18% of attributed speech.

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