This edition page records The Purple Cloud, credited to Shiel, M. P. (Matthew Phipps), 1865-1947, within the Machines, Inventions & Early Science Fiction collection at ucobe.com.

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The extracted text contains approximately 107,869 words, corresponding to an estimated 469 minutes of reading, and is divided into 11 detectable text sections. These figures describe the downloaded text file rather than a printed pagination system.

The automated text analysis reports an average sentence length of about 32.5 words and a measured lexical-diversity value of 0.102. These measurements are descriptive reading aids, not literary ratings.

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The source record associates this edition with the following subjects: Science fiction, End of the world -- Fiction, Natural disasters -- Fiction, Apocalyptic fantasies. Catalog terms may reflect historical library practice and can be broader or narrower than a modern reader’s interpretation.

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