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Yilin Press

Also known as: 译林出版社 凤凰出版传媒股份有限公司, 译林出版社 凤凰出版传媒集团, 译林出版, 凤凰传媒出版集团 译林出版社

Founded
1988
Country / Region
China
Notable books
Mourning the BreastsThe Interpretation of CulturesUnder the Medieval Starry Sky

936 books 617 authors

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)

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Out of Africa 卡伦·布里克森 Yilin Press · 2021 Out of Africa is an autobiographical work written in 1937 by the Danish author Karen Blixen (pen name Isak Dinesen) and is regarded as one of the fine…
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David Copperfield Charles Dickens Yilin Press · 2021 David Copperfield is the eighth novel by the English writer Charles Dickens, published in twenty monthly parts between 1849 and 1850 and completed in …
To the Lighthouse (Bilingual Edition) cover
To the Lighthouse (Bilingual Edition) Virginia Woolf Yilin Press · 2021 To the Lighthouse is a novel by Virginia Woolf, published in 1927, and one of her most representative stream-of-consciousness works. Centering on the …
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David Attenborough's Natural Adventures (Series One) David Attenborough Yilin Press · 2021 David Attenborough's Natural Adventures (Series One) is a collection of naturalist travelogues from the youth of David Attenborough, 'the father of na…
Senior High School Textbook · English, Selective Compulsory, Book 1 and Book 2 cover
Senior High School Textbook · English, Selective Compulsory, Book 1 and Book 2 《普通高中教科书·英语》编写组 / Wang Shouren / He Feng Yilin Press · 2021 This book is a senior high school English textbook published by Yilin Press and approved by the National Textbook Committee. It is the second volume o…
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A History of the World in 10½ Chapters Julian Barnes Yilin Press · 2021 A History of the World in 10½ Chapters is one of the representative works of the British writer Julian Barnes. It consists of ten self-contained stori…
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A Future in Ruins: UNESCO, World Heritage, and the Dream of Peace Lynn Meskell Yilin Press · 2021 Founded in 1945, UNESCO is an intergovernmental agency dedicated to promoting peace, humanitarianism, and cross-cultural understanding; its best-known…
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Lady Chatterley's Lover D. H. Lawrence Yilin Press · 2021 The novel is set in the Midlands mining country of England after the First World War. Constance (Connie), a lively middle-class woman, marries the you…
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The Fall, Exile and the Kingdom Albert Camus Yilin Press · 2021 Translated by Guo Hong'an, this volume brings together Camus's novella The Fall and his short-story collection Exile and the Kingdom—the last two work…
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Paris: Biography of a City Colin Jones Yilin Press · 2021 This book is a general history of Paris by the British historian and French history specialist Colin Jones, originally titled Paris: Biography of a Ci…
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The Divine Comedy Dante Alighieri Yilin Press · 2021 The Divine Comedy is a long narrative poem written by the Italian poet Dante Alighieri in the early fourteenth century. It is widely recognized as a m…
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Rating 4.6
A Tale of Two Cities Charles Dickens Yilin Press · 2020 A Tale of Two Cities is a historical novel by the English writer Charles Dickens, published in 1859. Set against the backdrop of the French Revolution…
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Rating 4.6
The Complete Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen Hans Christian Andersen Yilin Press · 2020 This complete collection brings together the 166 fairy tales and stories written by Danish author Hans Christian Andersen over his lifetime, systemati…
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Rating 4.5
The Rise and Fall of the Third Reich: A History of Nazi Germany William L. Shirer Yilin Press · 2020 From 1933 to 1945, Nazi Germany, known as the "Third Reich," rose swiftly and then collapsed utterly in a mere twelve years and four months. The Ameri…
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Rating 4.5
The Mysterious Island Jules Verne Yilin Press · 2020 The Mysterious Island is the final installment of French author Jules Verne's "Voyages Extraordinaires" trilogy, following The Children of Captain Gra…
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Rating 4.5
Jules Verne's Classic Science Fiction: The Mysterious Island Jules Verne Yilin Press · 2020 The Mysterious Island is the final installment of French author Jules Verne's "Voyages Extraordinaires" trilogy (The Children of Captain Grant, Twenty…
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Rating 4.5
Qing-Dynasty Painted Edition of the Complete Dream of the Red Chamber Sun Wen Yilin Press · 2020 Dream of the Red Chamber, a classic of Chinese culture, has always been widely loved. This painted work on the theme of the novel, produced in the Ton…
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Rating 4.5
The Bridges of Madison County Robert James Waller Yilin Press · 2020 The Bridges of Madison County is a novella by the American writer Robert James Waller. It tells of a love hidden for half a lifetime and read again on…
Collected Works of Lü Simian: History of the Qin and Han Dynasties cover
Rating 4.5
Collected Works of Lü Simian: History of the Qin and Han Dynasties Lü Simian Yilin Press · 2020 The History of Qin and Han is one of the four dynastic histories by the renowned historian Lü Simian and one of the most essential reference works for…
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Rating 4.4
Daddy-Long-Legs (Yilin Classics Audio Edition) 简·韦伯斯特 Yilin Press · 2020 Promote reading for all and build a reading society. Reading should start with children, so that they love reading from an early age and enjoy it.

Frequent authors

He Feng (27)Lao She (25)Wang Shouren (20)W. Somerset Maugham (15)Jules Verne (14)Winston Leonard Spencer Churchill (13)Zhu Shenghao (12)Jane Austen (12)William Shakespeare (12)Arthur Conan Doyle (12)Rao Xueman (11)方华文 (10)