An edition of The Color Purple (1976)

The color purple

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An edition of The Color Purple (1976)

The color purple

by , , , and

  • ★★★★ 4.1 (77 ratings) ·
  • 1,353 Want to read
  • 79 Currently reading
  • 151 Have read

This book tells the story of Celie. Raped by the man she calls father, her two children taken from her and forced into an ugly marriage, she pours out her feelings in letters to God, but has no one to talk to, until she meets a woman who offers love and support.

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Phoenix
Language
English
Pages
262

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Subjects

Fiction & Literature, Blacks, social life and customs, songs and music, Lesbian fiction, Epistolary fiction, Fiction, African American women, Sisters, Adult child sexual abuse victims, Abused wives, Domestic fiction, National Book Award Winner, award:national_book_award=1983, award:national_book_award=fiction, American fiction, African American authors, Social conditions, open_syllabus_project, Long Now Manual for Civilization, Language readers, Books that Shaped Work in America, Fictional Works Publication Type, African Continental Ancestry Group, Romans, Noires américaines, Reading Level-Grade 7, Reading Level-Grade 9, Reading Level-Grade 8, Reading Level-Grade 11, Reading Level-Grade 10, Reading Level-Grade 12, 1000blackgirlbooks, American fiction (fictional works by one author), Southern states, fiction, Sisters, fiction, African americans, fiction, Fiction, family life, Fiction, general, Fiction, african american, general, Large type books, Noires, Romans, nouvelles, Historical fiction, LGBTQ novels, Fiction, african american & black, general, New York Times reviewed, Fiction, family life, general, Vrouwenemancipatie, Racisme, Romans en novellen ; vertaald, American literature, Translations into Spanish, Spanish fiction, Spanish imprints, Roman espagnol, Imprimés espagnols, Lesbians, Friendship

People

Celie, Nettie, Shug Avery, Albert, God, Samuel, Corrine, Alphonso, Adam, Olivia, Harpo, Sofia, Squeak, Sheriff Hodges, Grady, Germaine, Tashi

Places

Southern States, United States, Georgia, Africa, Tennessee

Times

1930s

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Cover of: The Color Purple
The Color Purple
2017, Weidenfeld & Nicolson
paperback in English
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Cover of: The color purple
The color purple
2014, Phoenix
in English
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Cover of: The Color Purple
The Color Purple
2004, Paperview
in English
Cover of: The Color Purple
The Color Purple
2004, Phoenix
paperback in English - paperback edition
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Cover of: La Couleur Pourpre
La Couleur Pourpre
2001-04-25, J'ai Lu
Mass Market Paperback in French
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Cover of: The color purple
The color purple
1986, Guild Publishing
hardcover in English - Fourth reprint
Cover of: The color purple
The color purple
1985, Pocket Books
in English
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The Color Purple
1985-12, Pocket Books
Mass Market Paperback in English - 1st Pocket Books mass-market printing (11); movie tie-in
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The color purple
1985, Pocket Books
in English - Movie Tie-In Edition; 1st Pocket Books printing (34)
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The Color Purple
1983-06, Washington Square Press
Paperback in English - First Washington Square Press printing (33)
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Cover of: The Color Purple
The Color Purple
1982, Harcourt Brace Jovanovich, Publishers
in English
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Edition Notes

Originally published: New York: Harcourt Brace Jovanovich; 1983.

Published in
London

Classifications

Dewey Decimal Class
813.54
Library of Congress
PS3573.A425

The Physical Object

Pagination
xxi, 262 pages
Number of pages
262

ID Numbers

Open Library
OL37745201M
Internet Archive
colorpurple0000walk_n7f6
ISBN 10
1780228716
ISBN 13
9781780228716
OCLC/WorldCat
876291168

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Work Description

The Color Purple is a 1982 epistolary novel by American author Alice Walker which won the 1983 Pulitzer Prize for Fiction and the National Book Award for Fiction.

The novel has been the frequent target of censors and appears on the American Library Association list of the 100 Most Frequently Challenged Books of 2000–2009 at number seventeenth because of the sometimes explicit content, particularly in terms of violence. In 2003, the book was listed on the BBC's The Big Read poll of the UK's "best-loved novels."


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I am fourteen years old.
added anonymously.
You better not never tell nobody but God.
added by Lisa.

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