The Color Purple
Alice Walker
Literary Fiction
The Color Purple
by Alice Walker
—· 264 p
Pulitzer Prize20th Century ClassicLiterary Canonreflectivedarkhaunting
Overview
About
Set in the period between the world wars, this novel tells of two sisters, their trials, and their survival.
Pages
264
Houghton Mifflin Harcourt P
Linguistic complexity
3/5
Moderate
Thematic complexity
4/5
Rich
Rating
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Reader feel
Emotional depth10
Character Development10
Social Commentary9
Prose8
Narration8
Pacing7
Plot twists5
Worldbuilding4
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