About the publisher
Shidai Literature Publishing House is a literary publisher known for foreign literature and classic works. Judging from the more than 300 titles in the catalog, its publishing focus is on foreign literature, essays and miscellaneous writings, classic works, and world masterpieces, with attention to translation quality and series-based presentation. Representative books include Yukio Mishima's Spring Snow, Runaway Horses, The Decay of the Angel, and Forbidden Colors in the Zitu Classic Library series, as well as Yasunari Kawabata's Snow Country, Jane Austen's Pride and Prejudice, Lu Xun's essays, and the four-volume The Sea of Fertility. Its translator resources include Chen Dewen, Gao Huiqin, Lu Qiushi, and Ding Kaite, while the authors involved include Yukio Mishima, Yasunari Kawabata, Lu Xun, and Jane Austen. The publisher is characterized by translated literature and reissues of classics, balancing popular reading with cultural accumulation; public information about its complete catalog and publishing plans is limited.
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Rating 5.0★ Zitu Classics Library: Yukio Mishima · The Decay of the Angel Yukio Mishima / 陈德文 Shidai Literature Publishing House · 2021 Yukio Mishima's ultimate work of "beauty and mystery": in this world there is neither the privilege of happiness nor the privilege of unhappiness. The… Rating 5.0★ Zitu Classics Library: Yukio Mishima · Spring Snow Yukio Mishima / 陈德文 Shidai Literature Publishing House · 2021 The noble boy Kiyoaki and the girl Satoko have been childhood friends since birth. As they grow older, their companionship turns into romantic love. U… Rating 4.9★ Zitu Classics Library: Yukio Mishima · Runaway Horses Yukio Mishima / 陈德文 Shidai Literature Publishing House · 2021 As time passes, it gradually turns the sublime into the ridiculous. In this refined work of Mishima's narrative art, Honda recalls a remark Shigekuni … Rating 4.8★ Pride and Prejudice Jane Austen / 丁凯特 Shidai Literature Publishing House · 2021 Who married whom? Ordinary family squabbles become an enduring classic; Mrs. Bennet is eager to marry off her five unmarried daughters and urges Mr. B… Rating 4.8★ The Sea of Fertility Tetralogy (4 Volumes) Yukio Mishima / 陈德文 Shidai Literature Publishing House · 2021 The Sea of Fertility tetralogy comprises Spring Snow, Runaway Horses, The Temple of Dawn, and The Decay of the Angel. It is Yukio Mishima's grand, pan… Rating 4.8★ Zitu Classics Library: Yukio Mishima · Forbidden Colors Yukio Mishima / 陈德文 Shidai Literature Publishing House · 2021 A reckoning of sex and beauty, intoxicated by an imagination of sun and iron. For those who have survived the dreams of Yukio Mishima, his imagination… Rating 4.8★ Collected Essays of Lu Xun Lu Xun Shidai Literature Publishing House · 2021 Lu Xun pioneered a new literary form—the "zawen" (essay)—characterized by argumentation as its core and flexibility in style, and brought it to full d… Rating 4.7★ Letter from an Unknown Woman Stefan Zweig / 姬健梅 Shidai Literature Publishing House · 2021 "I once thought that feelings which can only be sensed, never spoken, were held right there in my own hands." Zweig was extraordinarily gifted, with d… Rating 4.7★ Jane Eyre Charlotte Brontë / 刘荣跃 Shidai Literature Publishing House · 2021 A "Cinderella" tale of love and struggle—the wild lily finally greets its spring. As a typical modern urban woman—plain in looks, ordinary in figure, … Rating 4.7★ Zitu Classics Library: Yukio Mishima · The Temple of Dawn Yukio Mishima / 陈德文 Shidai Literature Publishing House · 2021 Reborn in cycles within the "beauty of sexuality," a work in which Mishima's soul will never rest. Mishima said, "Once a person passes 30, his name wi… Rating 4.6★ Zito Classics Library: The Temple of the Golden Pavilion Yukio Mishima / 陈德文 Shidai Literature Publishing House · 2021 Beauty taken to its extreme becomes destruction—Mishima's aesthetic masterpiece and a landmark novel of singular perfection. Anyone confronted with th… Rating 4.6★ Zito Classics Library: Yukio Mishima Grand Collection (10 Volumes) Yukio Mishima / 陈德文 Shidai Literature Publishing House · 2021 This set comprises 10 volumes and includes nine essential classic novels by Yukio Mishima, among them the internationally recognized masterpieces The … Rating 4.6★ The Plague Albert Camus / Li Yumin Shidai Literature Publishing House · 2021 In 2002 it was SARS; in 2020, COVID-19... Whenever disaster strikes, The Plague surges in popularity. For in reading The Plague, people always marvel … Rating 4.6★ Zito Classics Library: Ryunosuke Akutagawa · Rashomon Ryūnosuke Akutagawa / 文洁若 Shidai Literature Publishing House · 2021 With remarkable economy and language as cool and clear as dewdrops, Akutagawa Ryūnosuke wrote such classic stories as In a Grove, Rashōmon, Hell Scree… Rating 4.5★ Zito Classics Library: Yukio Mishima's Trilogy of Extreme Writing: The Temple of the Golden Pavilion + The Sound of Waves + Thirst for Love (Authoritative Translator Chen Dewen's Latest Revised Edition, Illustrated Collector's Edition!) Yukio Mishima / 陈德文 Shidai Literature Publishing House · 2021 Twice nominated for the Nobel Prize, the brilliant author who brought Japanese literature to the center of the world stage and is revered by literary … Rating 4.5★ Zito Classics Library: Maugham · The Moon and Sixpence W. Somerset Maugham / 苏福忠 Shidai Literature Publishing House · 2021 "The ground was covered with sixpences, yet he looked up and saw the moon." Charles, a London financier, has a successful career and a wealthy, happy … Rating 4.4★ Zitu Classics Library: Yukio Mishima · Confessions of a Mask Yukio Mishima / 陈德文 Shidai Literature Publishing House · 2021 The Confessions of a Mask is Yukio Mishima's early breakthrough work and one of his major novels. It marked a watershed in Japanese literary history a… Rating 4.3★ Osamu Dazai · No Longer Human (Zitu Classic Library) Osamu Dazai / 刘子倩 Shidai Literature Publishing House · 2021 A helpless life-swan song from the depths of Osamu Dazai's soul, written for the cowardly yet yearning self within us all. No Longer Human is Dazai's … Rating 4.3★ Thirst for Love Yukio Mishima / 陈德文 Shidai Literature Publishing House · 2021 If love cannot destroy loneliness, it will destroy the lover. A flawless achievement of Mishima's narrative art. After her husband's death, Etsuko sur… Rating 4.2★ Zito Classics Library: The Sound of Waves Yukio Mishima / 陈德文 Shidai Literature Publishing House · 2021 Only pure and true desire can make the flesh pure. Mishima's unique work of "opposing himself." He abandoned the tragic notion that all characters har…Frequent authors
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