方华文

Also known as: 方华文译

Notable works
A Tale of Two CitiesThe Moon and SixpenceThe Painted Veil

31 written works

About the author

Fang Huawen is a Chinese author with a substantial body of work, with 31 titles held in the collection. Public information about him is limited: his nationality, dates of birth and death, and English name are not known. Judging from the existing works, his writing and translation work centers mainly on foreign literature. His representative titles include The Moon and Sixpence, A Tale of Two Cities, The Razor's Edge, The Painted Veil, The Old Man and the Sea, and The Gadfly, most of them in bilingual Chinese-English collector's editions. The common categories cover foreign literature, inspirational growth, and world classics, which suggests that his focus is on presenting classic works to Chinese readers in bilingual format, serving both literary reading and language learning. Overall, Fang Huawen's name is associated with the translation and bilingual publication of classic works, and he has accumulated some experience in the dissemination of foreign literature.

Written (31)

The Veil cover
Rating 4.6
The Veil W. Somerset Maugham / 方华文 Jiangsu Phoenix Literature and Art Publishing House · 2026 Pretty young Kitty, eager to escape family pressure, hastily accepts the marriage proposal of the bacteriologist Walter, but this loveless union bring…
The Gadfly cover
Rating 4.2
The Gadfly Ethel Lilian Voynich / 方华文 Flower City Publishing House · 2026 The Gadfly is a novel by the Irish writer Ethel Voynich, tracing the growth of the Italian revolutionary known as the Gadfly. Born Arthur, he endures …
Tesla's Autobiography cover
Rating 4.0
Tesla's Autobiography 尼古拉·特斯拉 / 方华文 / 陈璐 Flower City Publishing House · 2026 This autobiography is divided into two parts. The first is Tesla's own account, "My Inventions," which opens with his boyhood and closes with his hope…
The Gadfly (Bilingual Classic) cover
Rating 4.5
The Gadfly (Bilingual Classic) 艾捷尔·丽莲·伏尼契 / 方华文 Yilin Press · 2025 The Gadfly is a novel by the Irish writer Ethel Lilian Voynich, depicting the struggle of 19th-century Italian patriots against Austrian rule. Inspire…
Cakes and Ale: Chinese-English Bilingual Edition cover
Rating 4.4
Cakes and Ale: Chinese-English Bilingual Edition William Somerset Maugham / 方华文 Yilin Press · 2025 Cakes and Ale is a bilingual Chinese-English edition of a novel by the renowned British novelist William Somerset Maugham. In 1930, the book was seria…
Darwin's Autobiography: Chinese-English Bilingual Edition cover
Rating 4.3
Darwin's Autobiography: Chinese-English Bilingual Edition Charles Robert Darwin / 方华文 Yilin Press · 2025 The Autobiography of Charles Darwin is an autobiography written by Darwin himself, mainly telling the legendary life of the founding father of evoluti…
Immensee cover
Rating 4.3
Immensee 特奥多尔·施托姆 / 方华文 Yilin Press · 2025 This volume comprises two novellas, Immensee and The Rider on the White Horse. Immensee, consisting of ten vignettes, unfolds through the recollection…
A Farewell to Arms cover
Rating 4.5
A Farewell to Arms Ernest Miller Hemingway / 方华文 · 2024 American youth Frederic Henry volunteers for the Red Cross in the later years of World War I, driving an ambulance and rescuing the wounded on the nor…
The Sun Also Rises cover
Rating 4.5
The Sun Also Rises Ernest Miller Hemingway / 方华文 · 2024 American youth Barnes is injured in the spine during the World War and loses his sexual capacity. After the war, while working as a journalist in Pari…
The Snows of Kilimanjaro cover
Rating 4.5
The Snows of Kilimanjaro Ernest Miller Hemingway / 方华文 Guizhou People's Publishing House · 2024 This collection brings together more than ten short stories by Nobel laureate Ernest Hemingway, including "The Short Happy Life of Francis Macomber," …
Seton's Animal Stories: Chinese-English Bilingual (2 Volumes) cover
Rating 4.2
Seton's Animal Stories: Chinese-English Bilingual (2 Volumes) 欧内斯特·汤普森·西顿 / 方华文 Yilin Press · 2024 Wild Animals I Have Known is a collection of short animal stories by the Canadian author Ernest Thompson Seton. First published in 1898, the book pion…
The Life of Christopher Columbus (Bilingual Classic) cover
Rating 3.2
The Life of Christopher Columbus (Bilingual Classic) 爱德华·埃弗里特·黑尔 / 方华文 Yilin Press · 2024 The Life of Christopher Columbus is a biography of Christopher Columbus. Combining meticulous historical sources with a rich narrative style, the auth…
Hardy Collection: Complete 5 Volumes (World Classic Translations Library) cover
Rating 4.5
Hardy Collection: Complete 5 Volumes (World Classic Translations Library) Thomas Hardy / 王之光 / 方华文 Shanghai Joint Publishing Company · 2023 01 Tess of the d'Urbervilles is a representative "novel of character and environment" by the renowned English author Thomas Hardy. Set against the bac…
The Razor's Edge cover
Rating 4.7
The Razor's Edge W. Somerset Maugham / 方华文 Volumes Publishing Company · 2022 Larry, an American youth, has witnessed the ruthlessness and cruelty of war and is left bewildered about life. After the war, eager to seek the value …
A Tale of Two Cities cover
Rating 4.7
A Tale of Two Cities Charles Dickens / 方华文 Volumes Publishing Company · 2022 A Tale of Two Cities is the representative work of Charles Dickens, a master of critical literature. In Dickens's hands, the novel interweaves three s…
The Moon and Sixpence cover
Rating 4.7
The Moon and Sixpence W. Somerset Maugham / 方华文 Volumes Publishing Company · 2022 "I" — Charles Strickland, an ordinary middle-aged stockbroker. To escape this mundane life, I abandoned my wife and children, crossed the English Chan…
The Painted Veil cover
Rating 4.7
The Painted Veil W. Somerset Maugham / 方华文 Guwuxuan Publishing House · 2022 “I know you are foolish, frivolous, and empty-headed, and yet I love you. I know your ambitions, your ideals; I know you are vulgar and a snob, and ye…
The Old Man and the Sea cover
Rating 4.6
The Old Man and the Sea Ernest Miller Hemingway / 方华文 Shanxi People's Publishing House · 2022 A selection of novellas by Hemingway, the legendary twentieth-century writer, including The Old Man and the Sea, The Short Happy Life of Francis Macom…
Of Mice and Men (Chinese-English Bilingual Edition) cover
Rating 4.5
Of Mice and Men (Chinese-English Bilingual Edition) John Steinbeck / 方华文 Yilin Press · 2022 Of Mice and Men is a bilingual Chinese-English edition of John Steinbeck's representative work. Steinbeck, winner of the Nobel Prize in Literature and…
A Doll's House: Selected Plays of Ibsen (Chinese-English Bilingual Edition) cover
Rating 4.4
A Doll's House: Selected Plays of Ibsen (Chinese-English Bilingual Edition) 亨利克·易卜生 / 方华文 Yilin Press · 2022 A Doll's House: Selected Plays of Ibsen is a bilingual Chinese-English edition featuring three representative 'social problem plays' by the Norwegian …

Publishers

Volumes Publishing CompanyShanghai Joint Publishing CompanyGuwuxuan Publishing HouseShanxi People's Publishing HouseJiangsu Phoenix Literature and Art Publishing HouseHenan Literature and Art Publishing HouseFlower City Publishing HouseYilin PressGuizhou People's Publishing HouseShaanxi Normal University Press