H4. Adverb and adjective rates. Count
Prose style. One line per book. Open a book for the full answer, charts and cited lines.
| Book | Genre | Result |
|---|---|---|
| Treasure Island | Thriller and adventure | About 9.44 words ending in 'ly' and 4.33 likely adjectives per 1,000 words. |
| The Thirty-Nine Steps | Thriller and adventure | About 9.92 words ending in 'ly' and 5.63 likely adjectives per 1,000 words. |
| The Prisoner of Zenda | Thriller and adventure | About 10.3 words ending in 'ly' and 5.9 likely adjectives per 1,000 words. |
| Around the World in Eighty Days | Thriller and adventure | About 13.65 words ending in 'ly' and 13.95 likely adjectives per 1,000 words. |
| King Solomon's Mines | Thriller and adventure | About 11.85 words ending in 'ly' and 7.8 likely adjectives per 1,000 words. |
| The Hound of the Baskervilles | Crime and mystery | About 11.4 words ending in 'ly' and 8.98 likely adjectives per 1,000 words. |
| A Study in Scarlet | Crime and mystery | About 12.04 words ending in 'ly' and 8.46 likely adjectives per 1,000 words. |
| The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes | Crime and mystery | About 12.21 words ending in 'ly' and 8.38 likely adjectives per 1,000 words. |
| The Moonstone | Crime and mystery | About 13.19 words ending in 'ly' and 8.72 likely adjectives per 1,000 words. |
| The Woman in White | Crime and mystery | About 15.84 words ending in 'ly' and 9.26 likely adjectives per 1,000 words. |
| Pride and Prejudice | Romance | About 16.83 words ending in 'ly' and 10.08 likely adjectives per 1,000 words. |
| Persuasion | Romance | About 14.28 words ending in 'ly' and 9.42 likely adjectives per 1,000 words. |
| Emma | Romance | About 15.28 words ending in 'ly' and 8.99 likely adjectives per 1,000 words. |
| Jane Eyre | Romance | About 11.91 words ending in 'ly' and 9.42 likely adjectives per 1,000 words. |
| Dracula | Gothic and horror | About 10.29 words ending in 'ly' and 7.57 likely adjectives per 1,000 words. |
| Frankenstein | Gothic and horror | About 12.88 words ending in 'ly' and 14.73 likely adjectives per 1,000 words. |
| Strange Case of Dr Jekyll and Mr Hyde | Gothic and horror | About 12.61 words ending in 'ly' and 8.06 likely adjectives per 1,000 words. |
| The Picture of Dorian Gray | Gothic and horror | About 12.18 words ending in 'ly' and 12.72 likely adjectives per 1,000 words. |
| Wuthering Heights | Gothic and horror | About 14.42 words ending in 'ly' and 8.79 likely adjectives per 1,000 words. |
| The Turn of the Screw | Gothic and horror | About 15.88 words ending in 'ly' and 9.58 likely adjectives per 1,000 words. |
| The Time Machine | Science fiction | About 15.91 words ending in 'ly' and 10.83 likely adjectives per 1,000 words. |
| The War of the Worlds | Science fiction | About 14.88 words ending in 'ly' and 10.38 likely adjectives per 1,000 words. |
| The Invisible Man | Science fiction | About 15.91 words ending in 'ly' and 13.46 likely adjectives per 1,000 words. |
| Alice's Adventures in Wonderland | Fantasy and children's | About 13.95 words ending in 'ly' and 4.24 likely adjectives per 1,000 words. |
| The Wonderful Wizard of Oz | Fantasy and children's | About 12.94 words ending in 'ly' and 5.52 likely adjectives per 1,000 words. |
| The Secret Garden | Fantasy and children's | About 10.93 words ending in 'ly' and 5.3 likely adjectives per 1,000 words. |
| The Wind in the Willows | Fantasy and children's | About 19.63 words ending in 'ly' and 7.89 likely adjectives per 1,000 words. |
| Great Expectations | Literary | About 11.31 words ending in 'ly' and 7.82 likely adjectives per 1,000 words. |
| A Christmas Carol | Literary | About 10.34 words ending in 'ly' and 8.99 likely adjectives per 1,000 words. |
| The Great Gatsby | Literary | About 16.15 words ending in 'ly' and 8.23 likely adjectives per 1,000 words. |
| Heart of Darkness | Literary | About 14.06 words ending in 'ly' and 13.11 likely adjectives per 1,000 words. |
| Kidnapped | Thriller and adventure | About 7.29 words ending in 'ly' and 4.45 likely adjectives per 1,000 words. |
| The Count of Monte Cristo | Thriller and adventure | About 11.65 words ending in 'ly' and 9.62 likely adjectives per 1,000 words. |
| The Three Musketeers | Thriller and adventure | About 9.1 words ending in 'ly' and 8.42 likely adjectives per 1,000 words. |
| The Riddle of the Sands | Thriller and adventure | About 13.43 words ending in 'ly' and 10.54 likely adjectives per 1,000 words. |
| The Scarlet Pimpernel | Thriller and adventure | About 21.06 words ending in 'ly' and 12.9 likely adjectives per 1,000 words. |
| The Lost World | Thriller and adventure | About 11.88 words ending in 'ly' and 14.26 likely adjectives per 1,000 words. |
| Captain Blood | Thriller and adventure | About 14.45 words ending in 'ly' and 9.96 likely adjectives per 1,000 words. |
| Lady Audley's Secret | Crime and mystery | About 13.23 words ending in 'ly' and 10.6 likely adjectives per 1,000 words. |
| The Murders in the Rue Morgue | Crime and mystery | About 17.79 words ending in 'ly' and 12.17 likely adjectives per 1,000 words. |
| The Innocence of Father Brown | Crime and mystery | About 16.37 words ending in 'ly' and 11.97 likely adjectives per 1,000 words. |
| The Big Bow Mystery | Crime and mystery | About 15.06 words ending in 'ly' and 12.52 likely adjectives per 1,000 words. |
| The Leavenworth Case | Crime and mystery | About 12.62 words ending in 'ly' and 8.82 likely adjectives per 1,000 words. |
| The Red Thumb Mark | Crime and mystery | About 17.43 words ending in 'ly' and 12.32 likely adjectives per 1,000 words. |
| The Amateur Cracksman | Crime and mystery | About 10.62 words ending in 'ly' and 7.23 likely adjectives per 1,000 words. |
| The Secret Agent | Crime and mystery | About 17.97 words ending in 'ly' and 14.14 likely adjectives per 1,000 words. |
| Sense and Sensibility | Romance | About 15.3 words ending in 'ly' and 9.45 likely adjectives per 1,000 words. |
| North and South | Romance | About 12.3 words ending in 'ly' and 7.53 likely adjectives per 1,000 words. |
| Far from the Madding Crowd | Romance | About 15.3 words ending in 'ly' and 9.39 likely adjectives per 1,000 words. |
| The Enchanted April | Romance | About 18.93 words ending in 'ly' and 10.42 likely adjectives per 1,000 words. |
| The Sheik | Romance | About 19.29 words ending in 'ly' and 12.0 likely adjectives per 1,000 words. |
| Daddy Long Legs | Romance | About 13.33 words ending in 'ly' and 9.58 likely adjectives per 1,000 words. |
| Carmilla | Gothic and horror | About 17.19 words ending in 'ly' and 11.17 likely adjectives per 1,000 words. |
| The Castle of Otranto | Gothic and horror | About 8.58 words ending in 'ly' and 12.76 likely adjectives per 1,000 words. |
| The Phantom of the Opera | Gothic and horror | About 10.16 words ending in 'ly' and 8.8 likely adjectives per 1,000 words. |
| The Great God Pan | Gothic and horror | About 12.78 words ending in 'ly' and 9.65 likely adjectives per 1,000 words. |
| The Yellow Wallpaper | Gothic and horror | About 11.83 words ending in 'ly' and 10.21 likely adjectives per 1,000 words. |
| The Call of Cthulhu | Gothic and horror | About 18.72 words ending in 'ly' and 20.05 likely adjectives per 1,000 words. |
| The Island of Doctor Moreau | Science fiction | About 14.77 words ending in 'ly' and 9.59 likely adjectives per 1,000 words. |
| Journey to the Centre of the Earth | Science fiction | About 16.28 words ending in 'ly' and 18.59 likely adjectives per 1,000 words. |
| A Princess of Mars | Science fiction | About 14.93 words ending in 'ly' and 10.21 likely adjectives per 1,000 words. |
| Herland | Science fiction | About 18.66 words ending in 'ly' and 11.35 likely adjectives per 1,000 words. |
| Flatland | Science fiction | About 13.97 words ending in 'ly' and 14.07 likely adjectives per 1,000 words. |
| Erewhon | Science fiction | About 15.65 words ending in 'ly' and 12.02 likely adjectives per 1,000 words. |
| The Last Man | Science fiction | About 9.26 words ending in 'ly' and 13.97 likely adjectives per 1,000 words. |
| Through the Looking Glass | Fantasy and children's | About 13.87 words ending in 'ly' and 3.65 likely adjectives per 1,000 words. |
| A Little Princess | Fantasy and children's | About 13.63 words ending in 'ly' and 6.31 likely adjectives per 1,000 words. |
| The Jungle Book | Fantasy and children's | About 6.98 words ending in 'ly' and 3.79 likely adjectives per 1,000 words. |
| Five Children and It | Fantasy and children's | About 16.56 words ending in 'ly' and 7.08 likely adjectives per 1,000 words. |
| The Railway Children | Fantasy and children's | About 12.08 words ending in 'ly' and 4.3 likely adjectives per 1,000 words. |
| The Princess and the Goblin | Fantasy and children's | About 7.61 words ending in 'ly' and 4.94 likely adjectives per 1,000 words. |
| Peter and Wendy | Fantasy and children's | About 18.78 words ending in 'ly' and 6.23 likely adjectives per 1,000 words. |
| The Worm Ouroboros | Fantasy and children's | About 7.94 words ending in 'ly' and 5.43 likely adjectives per 1,000 words. |
| Anne of Green Gables | Fantasy and children's | About 16.5 words ending in 'ly' and 9.16 likely adjectives per 1,000 words. |
| Black Beauty | Fantasy and children's | About 8.84 words ending in 'ly' and 5.6 likely adjectives per 1,000 words. |
| Middlemarch | Literary | About 14.37 words ending in 'ly' and 11.62 likely adjectives per 1,000 words. |
| Tess of the d'Urbervilles | Literary | About 14.77 words ending in 'ly' and 8.73 likely adjectives per 1,000 words. |
| Mrs Dalloway | Literary | About 15.12 words ending in 'ly' and 9.31 likely adjectives per 1,000 words. |
| To the Lighthouse | Literary | About 13.89 words ending in 'ly' and 7.15 likely adjectives per 1,000 words. |
| Anna Karenina | Literary | About 15.36 words ending in 'ly' and 8.36 likely adjectives per 1,000 words. |
| Crime and Punishment | Literary | About 17.4 words ending in 'ly' and 8.4 likely adjectives per 1,000 words. |
| Madame Bovary | Literary | About 8.66 words ending in 'ly' and 7.8 likely adjectives per 1,000 words. |
| The Age of Innocence | Literary | About 16.15 words ending in 'ly' and 10.3 likely adjectives per 1,000 words. |
| Silas Marner | Literary | About 12.18 words ending in 'ly' and 8.39 likely adjectives per 1,000 words. |
| Adventures of Huckleberry Finn | Literary | About 3.07 words ending in 'ly' and 3.32 likely adjectives per 1,000 words. |
| Hamlet | Plays | About 5.64 words ending in 'ly' and 7.44 likely adjectives per 1,000 words. |
| Macbeth | Plays | About 4.45 words ending in 'ly' and 8.23 likely adjectives per 1,000 words. |
| Romeo and Juliet | Plays | About 4.86 words ending in 'ly' and 6.73 likely adjectives per 1,000 words. |
| Othello | Plays | About 4.75 words ending in 'ly' and 7.66 likely adjectives per 1,000 words. |
| A Midsummer Night's Dream | Plays | About 4.26 words ending in 'ly' and 6.01 likely adjectives per 1,000 words. |
| Twelfth Night | Plays | About 5.16 words ending in 'ly' and 6.01 likely adjectives per 1,000 words. |
| Doctor Faustus | Plays | About 7.14 words ending in 'ly' and 6.9 likely adjectives per 1,000 words. |
| The Importance of Being Earnest | Plays | About 34.38 words ending in 'ly' and 11.32 likely adjectives per 1,000 words. |
| A Doll's House | Plays | About 12.54 words ending in 'ly' and 7.88 likely adjectives per 1,000 words. |
| Hedda Gabler | Plays | About 15.4 words ending in 'ly' and 5.95 likely adjectives per 1,000 words. |
| Pygmalion | Plays | About 16.19 words ending in 'ly' and 8.61 likely adjectives per 1,000 words. |
| The School for Scandal | Plays | About 9.69 words ending in 'ly' and 10.29 likely adjectives per 1,000 words. |
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