About the publisher
Yilin Press focuses mainly on translated foreign literature. Its current catalogue of 318 titles covers common categories such as mystery and detective fiction, foreign literature, world classics, biography, and social novels. Representative books include The Complete Sherlock Holmes 2: The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes, Pride and Prejudice, To the Lighthouse, The Great Gatsby, The Grapes of Wrath, and Lives of the Artists: Michelangelo, often presented in bilingual or English-language editions that serve both original-text reading and language learning. Its author resources include foreign writers such as Arthur Conan Doyle, Jane Austen, Virginia Woolf, and Romain Rolland, as well as translators including Li Jiazhen, Gao Fen, and Ma Ye. The catalogue also includes Chinese works such as Li Jieren's Ripples Across Stagnant Water. The press shows a concentrated publishing strength in foreign classics and bilingual readers; given limited public information, this overview is based only on catalogue data.
Published (936)
Candle Embers Sándor Márai Yilin Press · 2022 Published in 1942, Candle Embers is a novel by the Hungarian writer Sándor Márai and one of his most widely read and most representative works. The st… Borges and Me: An Encounter Jay Parini Yilin Press · 2022 Scotland, 1971. Twenty-two-year-old Jay Parini is a doctoral student in literature at the University of St Andrews, troubled by his dissertation, his … Clear Days and Simple Joys: Poems and People Through the Twenty-Four Solar Terms Wen Zhen Yilin Press · 2022 Clear Days and Simple Joys: Poems and People Through the Twenty-Four Solar Terms is an essay collection by Wen Zhen, a writer born in the 1980s, publi… Obelisk Series Box Set (11 Volumes) William L. Shirer / Robert Gerwarth / Colin Jones / 约翰·朱利叶斯·诺威奇 / 克里斯托弗·希伯特 / Robert Service / Xiao Lase Yilin Press · 2022 Obelisk is a history imprint of Yilin Press, founded in 2020 by its New Knowledge Publishing Center by consolidating its existing history titles. With… Rating 4.8★ Crime and Punishment (俄国)费奥多尔·陀斯妥耶夫斯基 Yilin Press · 2021 Crime and Punishment is a novel published by Dostoevsky in 1866 and one of his most representative works. The story is set in Petersburg: Raskolnikov,… Rating 4.5★ The Insulted and the Injured (俄国)费奥多尔·陀斯妥耶夫斯基 Yilin Press · 2021 The novel is narrated in the first person by Vanya, a young writer in Petersburg. At the start of the story, he witnesses a frail old man die suddenly… Rating 4.5★ The Lem Collection (Centenary Edition) 斯坦尼斯瓦夫·莱姆 Yilin Press · 2021 The Lem Collection (Centenary Edition) is the first systematically published collection of Stanisław Lem's works in the Chinese-speaking world, releas… Rating 4.4★ Peter Watson's Complete History of Ideas (4 Volumes) 彼得·沃森 Yilin Press · 2021 This boxed set is a Chinese collection of two representative works by the British intellectual historian Peter Watson, in four volumes: the two-volume… Rating 4.2★ Solaris 斯坦尼斯瓦夫·莱姆 Yilin Press · 2021 Solaris is a planet orbiting a binary star, its surface covered by a colloidal ocean. By the common sense of celestial mechanics, such a planetary orb… Rating 4.2★ Plato's Ethics Terence Irwin Yilin Press · 2021 This book is the representative work of Terence Irwin, Emeritus Professor of Classical Philosophy at Oxford University, on Plato's ethical thought. Th… Rating 4.2★ Lady Chatterley's Lover D. H. Lawrence Yilin Press · 2021 Lady Chatterley's Lover is the last novel published during the lifetime of the English writer D. H. Lawrence. It was privately printed in Florence, It… Rating 4.2★ Flaubert's Parrot Julian Barnes Yilin Press · 2021 This book is a representative work by the British writer Julian Barnes, shortlisted for the Booker Prize in 1984. In it, Barnes takes as his subject t… Rating 4.2★ Lady Chatterley's Lover D. H. Lawrence Yilin Press · 2021 In post-World War I England, twenty-three-year-old Constance (Connie) marries the aristocrat Clifford Chatterley. Before the honeymoon is over, Cliffo… Rating 4.2★ A History of the World in 10½ Chapters Julian Barnes Yilin Press · 2021 A History of the World in 10½ Chapters is a novel by the British writer Julian Barnes, published in 1989 and the most studied and discussed of his wor… Rating 4.2★ The Silence of the Lambs Quartet Thomas Harris Yilin Press · 2021 The Silence of the Lambs Quartet is a collection of four novels by Thomas Harris built around the cannibalistic Hannibal Lecter. The fully revised edi… Rating 4.0★ The Sun Also Rises Ernest Miller Hemingway Yilin Press · 2021 The Sun Also Rises is Hemingway's first novel, published in 1926, and the work that brought him wide attention and fame. Told in the first person by t… Rating 4.0★ Hannibal Thomas Harris Yilin Press · 2021 Hannibal is the third novel in Thomas Harris's "Silence of the Lambs" series, published in the English-speaking world in 1999 and adapted into a film … Rating 3.9★ The Sense of an Ending Julian Barnes Yilin Press · 2021 The Sense of an Ending is the Booker Prize-winning 2011 novel by British writer Julian Barnes, a spare and restrained tale about memory, time, and sel… Rating 3.8★ Red Dragon Thomas Harris Yilin Press · 2021 Red Dragon is a 1981 novel by Thomas Harris and the opening work of the Hannibal series. FBI agent Will Graham is gravely wounded while hunting a kill… The Thorn Birds 考琳·麦卡洛 Yilin Press · 2021 The Thorn Birds is a novel by the Australian writer Colleen McCullough, published in 1977 and widely acclaimed as "Australia's Gone with the Wind." Th…Frequent authors
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