Ten famous novels — from Shelley to Joyce — scored by VEYL using the actual opening passage. Real numbers, no cherry-picking. Most classics score near zero: they are, after all, human.
Shelley wrote this at 18. Verbose, epistolary, formal — and still reads as unmistakably human to VEYL.
The most famous opening line in English literature — and VEYL registers it as pure human writing.
Dickens' doubled parallelism sounds rhetorical enough to fool anyone — but VEYL sees a distinctly human hand at work.
First-person, immediate voice. Melville's rambling energy reads as human even to statistical models.
Watson narrating Holmes: character-driven, opinionated, aside-heavy. Almost zero AI signal.
Conrad wrote in his third language. The atmospheric frame-narrative registers as strongly human.
Highest-scoring book so far. Polished sentence rhythm reads as mid-range — a reminder that carefully edited prose can look AI-like.
Translated from German. Kafka's clinical, matter-of-fact tone still scored zero — VEYL saw right through the register to the specific human beneath.
Joyce's dense, allusive, multilingual prose. Zero percent AI — the strongest possible human verdict.
Composed entirely of diary entries, letters, and telegrams — every voice a different character. VEYL scored it at 0%.
A play, not a novel — dialogue in iambic pentameter with speaker attributions. VEYL still scored it at 0%.
Orwell's deliberately plain "windowpane" prose. Lower than we'd predicted — the specificity wins.
Bradbury's lyrical, metaphor-heavy prose scored 6% — clearly human, as expected.
Plath's first-person voice, specific sensory anchors, sharp interior monologue. Scored 8%.
King's colloquial, character-voice-driven prose. Zero percent AI — the strongest possible human verdict.
Some books are marked with placeholder scores until scanned in VEYL. See gen_pages.py to update as you scan.