What makes Purple Prose?

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purple prose is a curse of mine.
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I'm not a big fan of purple prose. I'd never heard of it til just now but I can already think of some examples: Great Expectations by Charles Dickens. Tortorus description; I couldn't even get past the first few pages.
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