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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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Color Purple: The Classic, Pulitzer Prize-Winning Novel
2023, Orion Publishing Group, Limited
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Color Purple: The Classic, Pulitzer Prize-Winning Novel
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Koulè Mov La (Haitian Creole Edition) (French Edition)
2019-04-08, JEBCA Editions
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The Color Purple
Mar 12, 2019, Audible Studios on Brilliance, Audible Studios on Brilliance Audio
mp3 cd
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Color Púrpura / the Color Purple
2018, Penguin Random House Grupo Editorial
in Spanish
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Color Purple (Musical Tie-In)
2015, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Trade & Reference Publishers
in English
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The Color Purple
2011?, Phoenix, Orion Publishing Group, Limited
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in English
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The Color Purple (Read a Great Movie)
March 24, 2005, Orion
Paperback
- New Ed edition
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The Color Purple
2004?, Harcourt
Mass Market Paperback
in English
- First Harvest edition (11)
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The Color Purple
2004?, Harcourt, Inc.
Paperback
in English
- 1st Harvest Edition (V); Broadway tie-in
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The Color Purple
2004?, Harcourt
Paperback
in English
- 1st Harvest ed. (L)
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The Color Purple
February 1, 1998, Washington Square Press
Paperback
in English
0671019074 9780671019075
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Màu tím =: nguyên tác, The color purple
1998, Văn Nghue
in Vietnamese
- rAn bkan lsan 2.
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The Color Purple
1992?, Pocket Books
Mass Market Paperback
in English
- Movie Tie-In Edition; 1st Pocket Books printing (33)
0671727796 9780671727796
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The Color Purple
1992?, Pocket Books
library binding
in English
- First Pocket Books Printing (37); movie tie-in
080851847X 9780808518471
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The Color Purple
1992, Harcourt
Hardcover
in English
- 10th anniversary ed., First edition (F)
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The color purple
1992, Women's Press, PHOENIX
in English
- 10th anniversary limited edition.
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The Color Purple (Large Print))
1992, Harcourt Brace Jovanovich
Hardcover
in English
1568653506 9781568653501
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The Color Purple
1992, Harcourt Brace Jovanovich, Publishers
Hardcover
in English
- 1st edition (A)
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The color purple
1991, Cambridge University Press, in association with The Women's Press, Cambridge University Press
in English
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De kleur paars
1987-08, Muntinga
Mass Market Paperback
in Dutch
- zevende druk; movie tie-in
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The Color Purple
1987, Woman's Press
Paperback
in English
- Reprint; Movie Tie-in
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El Color Purpura
1986-02, Plaza & Janes Editories, S.A.
Paperback
in Spanish
- Segunda ed.
8401321476 9788401321474
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El Color Purpura / the Color Purple
January 1986, Plaza & Janes Editories Sa
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in Spanish
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Cher bon Dieu
1986-05, France Loisirs
Hardcover
in French
- Edition du Club France Loisirs
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The Color Purple
September 1986, Perfection Learning Prebound
Unknown Binding
- Second reprint edition
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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
0671617028 9780671617028
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The Color Purple
1985 12, Pocket Books
Mass Market Paperback
in English
- Movie Tie-In Edition; 1st Pocket Books mass-market printing (1)
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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
1985 12, Pocket Books
Mass Market Paperback
in English
- Movie Tie-In Edition; 1st Pocket Books mass-market printing (11)
0671617028 9780671617028
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De kleur paars
1984-11, In de Knipscheer
Paperback
in Dutch
- Tweede druk (paperback)
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El Color Purpura/the Color Purple: Il colore viola
1984, Frassinelli
Paperback
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The Color Purple
September 1983, Perfection Learning Prebound
Unknown Binding
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The Color Purple
1983 06, Washington Square Press
Paperback
in English
- 1st Washington Square Press printing (1)
0671458531 9780671458539
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The Color Purple
1983-06, Washington Square Press
Paperback
in English
- First Washington Square Press printing (21)
0671526022 9780671526023
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The Color Purple
1983-06, Washington Square Press
Paperback
in English
- First Washington Square Press printing (33)
0671668781 9780671668785
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The Color Purple
1983 06, Washington Square Press published by Pocket Books
Paperback
in English
- 1st Washington Square Press printing (26)
0671526022 9780671526023
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The Color Purple
1983-06, Washington Square Press
Paperback
in English
- 1st Washington Square Press printing (1)
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The Color Purple
January 31, 1983, Perfection Learning Prebound, Perfection Learning
Library Binding
in English
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The Color Purple
1982, Harcourt Brace Jovanovich, Publishers
Hardcover
in English
- printing (I)
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The Color Purple: A Novel
1982, Harcourt Brace Jovanovich
Hardcover
in English
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La Couleur Pourpre
Publish date unknown, Editions 84
Mass Market Paperback
in French
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