An edition of The Color Purple (1976)

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An edition of The Color Purple (1976)

The Color Purple

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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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English
Pages
287

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Cover of: The Color Purple
The Color Purple
2023, Penguin
in English
Cover of: The Color Purple
The Color Purple
2021, Folio Society
in English
Cover of: The Color Purple
The Color Purple
2019, Turtleback
in English
Cover of: The Color Purple
The Color Purple
2011, Open Road Integrated Media, Inc.
Paperback in English
Cover of: The Color Purple
The Color Purple
2007, Harcourt, Inc.
in English
Cover of: The Color Purple
The Color Purple
1986, Guild Publishing
in English
Cover of: The color purple
The color purple
1985, Pocket Books
in English
Cover of: The color purple
The color purple
1985, Pocket Books
in English - Movie Tie-In Edition; 1st Pocket Books printing (34)
Cover of: The Color Purple
The Color Purple
1985, FollettBound
in English
Cover of: The color purple
The color purple
1983, Washington Square Press
in English
Cover of: The color purple
The color purple
1983, Washington Square Press
in English

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Series
The Color Purple Collection

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Format
Paperback
Number of pages
287

Edition Identifiers

Open Library
OL29631112M
ISBN 10
0143135694
ISBN 13
9781453232606

Work Identifiers

Work ID
OL273644W

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

first sentence

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