The Purple Heights

Marie Conway Oemler

first published 1920 Echo Library, 2007 paperback 192 pages

First published in 1920, Marie Conway Oemler's *The Purple Heights* is the story of Peter Champneys, a fatherless boy with black hair and hazel eyes, living with his mother in a small house in South Carolina. Shy with other children, Peter makes friends of unlikely creatures: a small gray cat named Martin Luther who presents him with a litter of kittens, or a Red Admiral butterfly, which Peter believes is a fairy, or...

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The Purple Heights paperback · 2007 · Echo Library · 192 pages · 9781406836042
The Purple Heights paperback · 2007 · 1st World Library - Literary Society · 348 pages · 9781421845579
The Purple Heights (Dodo Press) paperback · 2007 · Dodo Press · 268 pages · 9781406531725
The Purple Heights hardcover · 2007 · 1st World Library - Literary Society · 348 pages · 9781421844732
Purple Heights hardcover · 2006 · IndyPublish.com · 256 pages · 9781421993409
Purple Heights paperback · 2006 · IndyPublish.com · 256 pages · 9781421993416
The Purple Heights paperback · 2006 · Hard Press · 210 pages · 9781406908237
The Purple Heights hardcover · 2004 · IndyPublish.com · 256 pages · 9781414233628
The Purple Heights paperback · 2004 · IndyPublish.com · 256 pages · 9781414233635

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