Writers Publishing House

Also known as: 作家, 作家出版社有限公司

Founded
1953
Country / Region
China
Notable books
Dream of the Red Chamber (Volumes 1 and 2)MacbethDream of the Red Chamber

961 books 843 authors

About the publisher

Writers Publishing House is a Chinese publisher focused mainly on literary publishing. Its output covers classical literature, foreign literature, folk literature and Eastern philosophy, with some extension into popular reading such as social fiction and parenting books. Its catalogue contains more than 900 titles, including representative works such as Dream of the Red Chamber and its edited editions, Shakespeare's Macbeth and A Midsummer Night's Dream, and foreign literary classics such as The Brothers Karamazov and Lost Illusions. In terms of authors, it includes classical writers such as Cao Xueqin and Gao E, foreign masters such as William Shakespeare, Dostoevsky and Balzac, and translations by translators such as Zhu Shenghao, Geng Jizhi and Fu Lei. Overall, its publishing profile balances Chinese and foreign literary classics, emphasizes quality translations, and serves both academic and general readers; publicly available information on its specific publishing plans is limited.

Published (961)

Dream of the Red Chamber cover
Rating 5.0
Dream of the Red Chamber Cao Xueqin Writers Publishing House · 2026 With the tragic love of Baoyu and Daiyu as its main thread, Dream of the Red Chamber chronicles the decline of the four great families—Jia, Shi, Wang,…
Macbeth cover
Rating 5.0
Macbeth William Shakespeare / Zhu Shenghao Writers Publishing House · 2026 Macbeth is one of Shakespeare's four great tragedies, written in 1606 and a representative work of his later period, drawing on Holinshed's Chronicles…
Dream of the Red Chamber (Volumes 1 and 2) cover
Rating 5.0
Dream of the Red Chamber (Volumes 1 and 2) Cao Xueqin / Gao E Writers Publishing House · 2026 The novel Dream of the Red Chamber is one of the four great classics of Chinese literature, a great work of profound thought and high artistic achieve…
Lost Illusions cover
Rating 4.9
Lost Illusions Honoré de Balzac / Fu Lei Writers Publishing House · 2026 Lost Illusions is one of Balzac's major novels. Its central subject is the disillusionment of two talented and ambitious young men. The protagonist, L…
A Midsummer Night's Dream cover
Rating 4.9
A Midsummer Night's Dream William Shakespeare / Zhu Shenghao Writers Publishing House · 2026
The Brothers Karamazov (Volume I) cover
Rating 4.9
The Brothers Karamazov (Volume I) Fyodor Mikhailovich Dostoevsky / 耿济之 Writers Publishing House · 2026 The Brothers Karamazov is a novel by the Russian writer Fyodor Dostoevsky, generally regarded as the pinnacle of his literary career. Adapted from a r…
The Brothers Karamazov (Volume II) cover
Rating 4.9
The Brothers Karamazov (Volume II) Fyodor Mikhailovich Dostoevsky / 耿济之 Writers Publishing House · 2026 The landowner Fyodor Karamazov is greedy and lustful: he not only seizes the inheritance his wife left to their sons but, in his declining years, comp…
Teahouse (Reading Guide Catalog Series) cover
Rating 4.8
Teahouse (Reading Guide Catalog Series) Lao She Writers Publishing House · 2026 Teahouse is one of the representative works of Lao She, the "People's Artist," and a classic in the history of Chinese spoken drama. This book is one …
Orlando cover
Rating 4.8
Orlando Virginia Woolf / 徐颖 Writers Publishing House · 2026 Orlando is a novel by the English writer Virginia Woolf, published in 1928. It is her most exaggerated work and has a romantic, autobiographical quali…
A Midsummer Night's Dream cover
Rating 4.8
A Midsummer Night's Dream William Shakespeare / Zhu Shenghao Writers Publishing House · 2026 A Midsummer Night's Dream is a comedy in which William Shakespeare, in his youth, reached maturity; it tells a love story in which true lovers are fin…
Zhiyanzhai's Re-Commentary on The Story of the Stone: Jiaxu Collated Edition (Ninth Revision) cover
Rating 4.8
Zhiyanzhai's Re-Commentary on The Story of the Stone: Jiaxu Collated Edition (Ninth Revision) Cao Xueqin / 脂砚斋 / 邓遂夫 Writers Publishing House · 2026 In the course of its transmission, Dream of the Red Chamber gradually took shape in numerous editions, broadly divisible into two systems. One is the …
The Crescent Moon · Stray Birds cover
Rating 4.8
The Crescent Moon · Stray Birds Rabindranath Tagore / Zheng Zhenduo Writers Publishing House · 2026 The Crescent Moon and Stray Birds brings together two of Rabindranath Tagore's most influential works, Stray Birds and The Crescent Moon. This volume …
Othello cover
Rating 4.7
Othello William Shakespeare / Zhu Shenghao Writers Publishing House · 2026 William Shakespeare's tragedy Othello is one of his four great tragedies. Othello is a valiant general of the Duchy of Venice. He falls in love with D…
Zhu Ziqing's Prose (Writers' Prose Collection) cover
Rating 4.7
Zhu Ziqing's Prose (Writers' Prose Collection) Zhu Ziqing Writers Publishing House · 2026 This patch of sky and earth seems to be mine; I too seem to have stepped outside my ordinary self into another world. I love liveliness, and I love qu…
The Razor's Edge cover
Rating 4.7
The Razor's Edge W. Somerset Maugham / 孙晴 Writers Publishing House · 2026 The Razor's Edge is the representative novel of the British writer W. Somerset Maugham. It tells of Larry, an American young pilot who served in the F…
The Merchant of Venice (Writers' Classics Library) cover
Rating 4.7
The Merchant of Venice (Writers' Classics Library) William Shakespeare / Zhu Shenghao Writers Publishing House · 2026 The Merchant of Venice is a satirical comedy and one of Shakespeare's most famous comic works. As an important work from the period when Shakespeare w…
Of Human Bondage cover
Rating 4.7
Of Human Bondage W. Somerset Maugham / 商夏周 Writers Publishing House · 2026 Based on Maugham's own experiences, Of Human Bondage traces the complete journey of its disabled protagonist Philip from orphaned childhood to adultho…
Pride and Prejudice cover
Rating 4.7
Pride and Prejudice Jane Austen / 松风 Writers Publishing House · 2026 Pride and Prejudice centers on the fierce clash of "pride" and "prejudice" in the love between the wealthy, aloof, and haughty Darcy and the clever, q…
This Life of Mine cover
Rating 4.6
This Life of Mine Lao She Writers Publishing House · 2026 My This Life is Lao She's famous novella. Through a policeman's account of his own bumpy and twisted life, it reflects the hardships of ordinary urban…
Selected Poems of Tagore cover
Rating 4.6
Selected Poems of Tagore Rabindranath Tagore / Zheng Zhenduo Writers Publishing House · 2026 This is a poetry collection. Selected Poems of Tagore brings together two of his most influential works, Stray Birds and The Crescent Moon, along with…

Frequent authors

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