Hunan Literature and Art Publishing House

Also known as: 湖南文艺出版社等, 湖南文艺出版, 湖南文艺, 湖南文艺出版社有限责任公司

Founded
1985
Country / Region
China
Notable books
Crime and PunishmentWanderingSnow Country

1160 books 872 authors

About the publisher

Hunan Literature and Art Publishing House is a publisher known for its literary titles, with a catalogue spanning foreign literature, world classics, classical Chinese literature, essays and miscellaneous writings, and mystery and detective fiction. Judging from the more than 1,100 books in the database, the press publishes foreign classics such as Crime and Punishment, Snow Country, The Complete Sherlock Holmes and Letter from an Unknown Woman, as well as Chinese classical and modern literary works including Lu Xun's Wandering and A Madman's Diary and Wu Jingzi's The Scholars. In terms of translators and authors, translations by Cao Guowei and Tan Jinghua appear in its foreign literature titles, and the authors involved include Dostoevsky, Kawabata Yasunari, Conan Doyle and Zweig. Its publishing character lies in introducing Chinese and foreign literary classics side by side, balancing popular and serious works and attending to both readability and literary value. Public information is limited; the above is a brief overview based solely on the books in the database.

Published (1160)

Wandering cover
Rating 4.9
Wandering Lu Xun Hunan Literature and Art Publishing House · 2026 A collection of short stories written by Lu Xun after the May Fourth Movement, offering a profound dissection of the national character and expressing…
A Madman's Diary cover
Rating 4.8
A Madman's Diary Lu Xun Hunan Literature and Art Publishing House · 2026 This book collects fourteen classic short stories by Lu Xun. In "A Madman's Diary," Lu Xun set the newly born vernacular Chinese on the page, pioneeri…
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Rating 4.8
A Fool's Love Jun'ichirō Tanizaki / 林水福 Hunan Literature and Art Publishing House · 2026 “My feelings of love and hate for her are like a cat's eyes—they can change several times in a single night.” Twenty-eight-year-old Kawai Jōji takes i…
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Rating 4.8
Letter from an Unknown Woman Stefan Zweig / 庞文薇 Hunan Literature and Art Publishing House · 2026 Stefan Zweig, the "hunter of the heart": his masterpiece of short and medium-length fiction. A new authoritative translation, rendered directly from t…
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Rating 4.8
The Count of Monte Cristo: Complete in Three Volumes Alexandre Dumas / Zheng Kelu Hunan Literature and Art Publishing House · 2026 Often known in English as The Count of Monte Cristo, this novel centers on a 19th-century French first mate, Dantès, whose imminent happiness is destr…
Anna Karenina (Complete in Two Volumes) cover
Rating 4.8
Anna Karenina (Complete in Two Volumes) Leo Tolstoy Hunan Literature and Art Publishing House · 2026 “All happy families are alike; each unhappy family is unhappy in its own way.” As this famous opening line suggests, the novel's reflection on reality…
The Scholars cover
Rating 4.8
The Scholars Wu Jingzi Hunan Literature and Art Publishing House · 2026 The Scholars is a great realist satirical novel written by Wu Jingzi in Qing-dynasty China and a model of classical Chinese satire. In fifty-six chapt…
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Rating 4.7
The Pillow Book Sei Shōnagon / Zhou Zuoren Hunan Literature and Art Publishing House · 2026 For Japanese prose, The Pillow Book is all you need! A landmark masterpiece in Japanese literary history, a literary miracle that has endured for a th…
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Rating 4.7
Sophie's Choice 威廉·斯泰隆 / 谢瑶玲 Hunan Literature and Art Publishing House · 2026 After World War II, the young writer Stingo meets a Polish woman, Sophie, and her lover Nathan in a Brooklyn apartment. The three appreciate one anoth…
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Rating 4.7
Marie Antoinette Stefan Zweig / 文泽尔 Hunan Literature and Art Publishing House · 2026 A classic masterpiece by Zweig, revealing the life of the "headless queen" driven by fate. Directly translated from the original German, unabridged. W…
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Rating 4.7
Childhood · In the World · My University Maxim Gorky / 曾冲明 Hunan Literature and Art Publishing House · 2026 Drawn from Maxim Gorky's own upbringing, this trilogy stars Alyosha, the author's alter ego. Childhood recounts the bitter years the narrator spends a…
Hometown cover
Rating 4.7
Hometown Lu Xun Hunan Literature and Art Publishing House · 2026 This volume collects eleven classic short stories and novellas by Lu Xun. The stories are set in places such as "Luzhen," "City S," "Weizhuang," and "…
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Rating 4.7
Eugénie Grandet Honoré de Balzac / Fu Lei Hunan Literature and Art Publishing House · 2026 Old Goriot? No—the archetypal miser Grandet stands as the god of modern man: an all-powerful, pitiless deity of wealth. To amass a fortune he squeezes…
Jottings in the Gaps of Illness cover
Rating 4.7
Jottings in the Gaps of Illness Shi Tiesheng Hunan Literature and Art Publishing House · 2026 Fragments Written in the Gaps of Illness, a long philosophical prose work by Shi Tiesheng, one of the preeminent writers of contemporary Chinese liter…
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Rating 4.7
The Mysterious Island Jules Verne Hunan Literature and Art Publishing House · 2026 The Mysterious Island is a celebrated work by Jules Verne, the father of science fiction. Set during the American Civil War, the novel tells how five …
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Rating 4.7
Nineteen Eighty-Four 晏天 / George Orwell Hunan Literature and Art Publishing House · 2026 Nineteen Eighty-Four is the last novel by the English writer George Orwell and one of the most influential literary works of the twentieth century. Fi…
The Grapes of Wrath cover
Rating 4.7
The Grapes of Wrath John Steinbeck / 王一凡 Hunan Literature and Art Publishing House · 2026 I don't know whether it's heaven or hell, but it's our hope, and we have to keep on living... This is a deeply moving saga. The dust bowl destroys the…
The Plague cover
Rating 4.7
The Plague Albert Camus / 颜湘如 Hunan Literature and Art Publishing House · 2026 A masterpiece by Nobel laureate Albert Camus—an epic of ordinary people. Translated by Yan Xiangru, whose rendering is precise and fluid. One day, Dr.…
Thus Spoke Zarathustra cover
Rating 4.7
Thus Spoke Zarathustra Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche / 钱春绮 Hunan Literature and Art Publishing House · 2026 Nietzsche's magnum opus! A direct confrontation with the spiritual predicament of modern people, interpreting the meaning of life in poetic language. …
A Secret History of Books (Winner of the 18th Wenjin Book Award) cover
Rating 4.7
A Secret History of Books (Winner of the 18th Wenjin Book Award) 伊莲内·巴列霍 / Li Jing Hunan Literature and Art Publishing House · 2026 On the roads of ancient Europe, a band of mysterious hunters is pursuing a silent prey: books. They bear a secret mission entrusted to them by the Kin…

Frequent authors

Sai Lei (57)白落梅 (36)Lin Yutang (30)Ma Boyong (23)Bu Baichi (Tang Kaiqi) (18)Jo Nesbø (17)苏缨 (14)曹逸冰 (13)Lao She (13)Kawabata Yasunari (12)Cai Dongfan (12)Fu Lei (11)