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An edition of The Color Purple (1982)

The Color Purple

1st Harvest ed. (L)

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Published to unprecedented acclaim, The Color Purple established Alice Walker as a major voice in modern fiction. This is the story of two sisters--one a missionary in Africa and the other a child wife living in the South--who sustain their loyalty to and trust in each other across time, distance, and silence. Beautifully imagined and deeply compassionate, this classic novel of American literature is rich with passion, pain, inspiration, and an indomitable love of life.
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Color Purple
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2018, Penguin Random House Grupo Editorial
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Color Purple
2011, Open Road Integrated Media, Inc.
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The Color Purple
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Color Purple
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2009, José Olympio
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Color Purple
2007, Orion Publishing Group, Limited
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The Color Purple
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The Color Purple
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The Color Purple
2004?, Harcourt
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The Color Purple
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The Colour Purple
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Color Purple
2001, Women's Press, Limited, The
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El color púrpura
2001, Círculo de Lectores
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Color Purple
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The Color Purple
Jun 01, 1999, York Notes
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La Couleur Pourpre
October 15, 1999, Editions 84
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De kleur paars
1999-02, Diemen
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February 1, 1998, Washington Square Press
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1998, Văn Nghue
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The Color Purple
January 1996, Washington Square Press
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The Color Purple
January 1996, Buccaneer Books
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The Color Purple
1995, Women's Press
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The Colour Purple
1993, The Women's press
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The Color Purple
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The color purple
1992, Women's Press
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The Color Purple
1992, Harcourt
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1992, Harcourt Brace Jovanovich
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The Color Purple
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The Color Purple
1992, Harcourt Brace Jovanovich, Publishers
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The color purple
1991, Cambridge University Press, in association with The Women's Press
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Color Purple
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The color purple.
1989, Women's Press
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De kleur paars
1987-08, Muntinga
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Color Purple
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The Color Purple
1987, Woman's Press
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The Color Purple [Japanese Edition]
Nov 15, 1986, Shueisha
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The color purple: a novel
1986, G.K. Hall
in English
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The Color Purple
September 1986, Perfection Learning Prebound
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The Color Purple
1986, Harper
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The color purple.
1986, Guild Publishing
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1986, Círculo de Lectores
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1986, Lindhardt of Ringhof
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1986-05, France Loisirs
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The Color Purple
1985 12, Pocket Books
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1985 12, Pocket Books
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1985, Shūeisha
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1984, Rowohlt
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1984, Inkilap
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La couleur pourpre
April 1, 1984, Robert Laffont
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The Color Purple
1983-06, Washington Square Press
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The Color Purple
September 1983, Perfection Learning Prebound
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The Color Purple
1983 06, Washington Square Press
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The color purple
1983, Washington Square Press
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1983, Pocket Books/Washington Square Press
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The Color Purple
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The Color Purple
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1983 06, Washington Square Press
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1982, Harcourt Brace Jovanovich
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1982, Harcourt Brace Jovanovich, Publishers
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The Color Purple
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La Couleur Pourpre
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The Color Purple

First published in 1982

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
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

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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The Color Purple

1st Harvest ed. (L)

This edition was published in by Harcourt in Orlando.

Edition Description

Published to unprecedented acclaim, The Color Purple established Alice Walker as a major voice in modern fiction. This is the story of two sisters--one a missionary in Africa and the other a child wife living in the South--who sustain their loyalty to and trust in each other across time, distance, and silence. Beautifully imagined and deeply compassionate, this classic novel of American literature is rich with passion, pain, inspiration, and an indomitable love of life.
--back cover

Edition Notes

A Harvest Book

Genre
Fiction.
Copyright Date
1982

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Dewey Decimal Class
813/.54
Library of Congress
PS3573.A425 C6 2003, PS3573.A425C6 2003

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Internet Archive
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ISBN 10
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LC Control Number
2003005887
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