An edition of The Color Purple (1976)

Color Purple

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An edition of The Color Purple (1976)

Color Purple

  • 4.1 (76 ratings) ·
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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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Cover of: The Color Purple
The Color Purple
2017, Weidenfeld & Nicolson
paperback in English
Cover of: The Color Purple
The Color Purple
2004, Phoenix
paperback in English - paperback edition
Cover of: The Color Purple
The Color Purple
2004, Paperview
in English
Cover of: La Couleur Pourpre
La Couleur Pourpre
2001-04-25, J'ai Lu
Mass Market Paperback in French
Cover of: Color Purple
Color Purple
March 15, 1987, Pocket
Mass Market Paperback
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
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
1985-12, Pocket Books
Mass Market Paperback in English - 1st Pocket Books mass-market printing (11); movie tie-in
Cover of: The Color Purple
The Color Purple
1983-06, Washington Square Press
Paperback in English - First Washington Square Press printing (33)
Cover of: The Color Purple
The Color Purple
1982, Harcourt Brace Jovanovich, Publishers
in English

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First Sentence

"I am fourteen years old."

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Mass Market Paperback

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Open Library
OL7661023M
ISBN 10
0671647458
ISBN 13
9780671647452
Library Thing
283
Goodreads
1401369

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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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October 9, 2024 Edited by dccain Update covers
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October 9, 2021 Edited by lisaBot moving edition(s) to primary work
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