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The Penguin Classics Holiday Gift Guide

Season’s greetings from Penguin Classics! The holidays are here, so we have created a curated guide to help you find the perfect Classic for everyone on your list.

 

 

 

For the World Traveler:

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The Penguin Book of Italian Short Stories
The Penguin Book of Italian Short Stories
Japanese Ghost Stories
Japanese Ghost Stories
Lafcadio Hearn
The Penguin Book of Mermaids
The Penguin Book of Mermaids
Return of the Spirit
Return of the Spirit
Tawfiq al-Hakim
East Goes West
East Goes West
Younghill Kang
On the Road
On the Road
Jack Kerouac

 

For the Design Enthusiast:

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The Penguin Classics Book
The Penguin Classics Book
Lewis Carroll's Alice's Adventures in Wonderland
Lewis Carroll's Alice's Adventures in Wonderland
Lewis Carroll
Keith Haring Journals
Keith Haring Journals
Keith Haring
Classic Penguin: Cover to Cover
Classic Penguin: Cover to Cover
Design as Art
Design as Art
Bruno Munari
The Beauty of Everyday Things
The Beauty of Everyday Things
Soetsu Yanagi

 

For the Strong Female Lead:

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The Age of Innocence
The Age of Innocence
Edith Wharton
The Yellow Wall-Paper, Herland, and Selected Writings
The Yellow Wall-Paper, Herland, and Selected Writings
Charlotte Perkins Gilman
Passing
Passing
Nella Larsen
We Have Always Lived in the Castle
We Have Always Lived in the Castle
Shirley Jackson
Little Women
Little Women
Louisa May Alcott
Sense and Sensibility
Sense and Sensibility
Jane Austen
Jane Eyre
Jane Eyre
Charlotte Bronte

 

For the Budding Activist:

The Stonewall Reader
The Stonewall Reader
The Women's Suffrage Movement
The Women's Suffrage Movement
The Power of Nonviolent Resistance
The Power of Nonviolent Resistance
M. K. Gandhi
The Penguin Book of Migration Literature
The Penguin Book of Migration Literature
The Light of Truth
The Light of Truth
Ida B. Wells

 

For the Mindful and Philosophical:

Tao Te Ching
Tao Te Ching
Lao Tzu
The Prophet
The Prophet
Kahlil Gibran
Meditations
Meditations
Marcus Aurelius
Letters from a Stoic
Letters from a Stoic
Seneca
Roots of Yoga
Roots of Yoga

 

For the Hard-To-Shop-For:

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Pride and Prejudice
Pride and Prejudice
Jane Austen
Jane Eyre
Jane Eyre
Charlotte Bronte
My Antonia
My Antonia
Willa Cather
Great Expectations
Great Expectations
Charles Dickens
Middlemarch
Middlemarch
George Eliot
Madame Bovary
Madame Bovary
Gustave Flaubert
Lord of the Flies
Lord of the Flies
William Golding
Siddhartha
Siddhartha
Hermann Hesse
An Artist of the Floating World
An Artist of the Floating World
Kazuo Ishiguro
A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man
A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man
James Joyce
The Secret Life of Bees
The Secret Life of Bees
Sue Monk Kidd
Native Speaker
Native Speaker
Chang-rae Lee
Moby-Dick
Moby-Dick
Herman Melville
Five Children and It
Five Children and It
E. Nesbit
BUtterfield 8
BUtterfield 8
John O'Hara
Swann's Way
Swann's Way
Marcel Proust
The Greek Coffin Mystery
The Greek Coffin Mystery
Ellery Queen
Haroun and the Sea of Stories
Haroun and the Sea of Stories
Salman Rushdie
Cannery Row
Cannery Row
John Steinbeck and Jessica Hische
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