Celie's development is chronicled through her letters in Alice Walker's novel.

The title, Alice Walker’s The Color Purple, part of Chelsea House Publishers’ Modern Critical Interpretations series, presents the most important 20th-century criticism on Alice Walker’s The Color Purple through extracts of critical essays by well-known literary critics. This collection of criticism also features a short biography on Alice Walker, a chronology of the author’s life, and an introductory essay written by Harold Bloom, Sterling Professor of the Humanities, Yale University.

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