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.
Placeholder score. Translated from German. Kafka's clinical, matter-of-fact tone may register as "AI-adjacent" statistically.
Placeholder score. Joyce's dense, allusive, multilingual prose is about as human as prose gets. Molly Bloom's soliloquy alone should score near zero.
Placeholder score. The novel is entirely composed of diary entries, letters, and telegrams — every voice a different character.
Some books are marked with placeholder scores until scanned in VEYL. See gen_pages.py to update as you scan.