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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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Journey to the Center of the Earth Jules Verne Yilin Press · 2019 Journey to the Center of the Earth is a science-fiction novel by the French author Jules Verne, published in 1864 and one of the most celebrated works…
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The Complete Sherlock Holmes Stories (2018 New Edition · Classics Translated by Yilin) Arthur Conan Doyle Yilin Press · 2019 The Complete Sherlock Holmes Stories is a series of novels by the British author Conan Doyle featuring the detective Sherlock Holmes and his assistant…
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Concepts and Categories: Philosophical Essays Isaiah Berlin / Henry Hardy Yilin Press · 2019 Concepts and Categories: Philosophical Essays is a collection of philosophical essays by Isaiah Berlin, edited in English by Henry Hardy, first publis…
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Technics and Time, 1: The Fault of Epimetheus Bernard Stiegler Yilin Press · 2019 Technology and Time is the magnum opus of the French philosopher Bernard Stiegler (1952–2020). Originally a doctoral dissertation written under the su…
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The Classic Prose Poems of Kahlil Gibran Kahlil Gibran Yilin Press · 2019 Gibran's writing has a curious doubleness: it is patient and calm, yet edged with a blade. On love he says that love gives nothing but itself and take…
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Wuthering Heights Emily Brontë Yilin Press · 2019 Wuthering Heights is the only novel written by the English author Emily Brontë, first published in December 1847. The story unfolds on the desolate mo…
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The Chameleon: Selected Short Stories of Chekhov Anton Pavlovich Chekhov Yilin Press · 2019 This book is a selection of short stories by the Russian writer Anton Chekhov, translated by Feng Jia and published by Yilin Press in its Classics of …
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On Revolution Hannah Arendt Yilin Press · 2019 On Revolution is Hannah Arendt's 1963 classic of political philosophy, an essential link alongside The Human Condition and The Origins of Totalitarian…
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Rating 4.8
The Crowd: A Study of the Popular Mind Gustave Le Bon Yilin Press · 2018 The Crowd: A Study of the Popular Mind is the magnum opus of the French social psychologist Gustave Le Bon. Published in French in 1895, it is regarde…
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Rating 4.7
Pride and Prejudice Jane Austen Yilin Press · 2018 Pride and Prejudice is the masterpiece of the English woman writer Jane Austen. First drafted in 1797 under the title First Impressions, it was formal…
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Rating 4.6
The Count of Monte Cristo Alexandre Dumas Yilin Press · 2018 The Count of Monte Cristo is a novel by the French author Alexandre Dumas, written between 1844 and 1846 and set during the Bourbon Restoration and th…
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Rating 4.5
The Catcher in the Rye J. D. Salinger Yilin Press · 2018 The Catcher in the Rye is a novel by the American writer J. D. Salinger, published in 1951 and one of the most widely read and discussed works of twen…
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Rating 4.5
Franny and Zooey J. D. Salinger Yilin Press · 2018 Franny and Zooey is the third book Salinger published after The Catcher in the Rye and Nine Stories. It consists of two linked novellas, "Franny" and …
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Rating 4.5
Franny and Zooey J. D. Salinger Yilin Press · 2018 This book is Salinger's third published work after The Catcher in the Rye and Nine Stories, consisting of two interrelated novellas, "Franny" and "Zoo…
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Rating 4.5
Pride and Prejudice Jane Austen Yilin Press · 2018 Pride and Prejudice is the masterpiece of the English writer Jane Austen. The first draft was completed in 1797 under the title First Impressions, and…
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Rating 4.4
Nanqiang Beidiao Ji Lu Xun Yilin Press · 2018 Nanqiang Beidiao Ji (roughly, "Mixed Southern and Northern Tunes") is a collection of essays compiled by Lu Xun himself, first published in March 1934…
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Rating 4.3
Little House on the Prairie 劳拉·英格尔斯·怀德 Yilin Press · 2018 The most celebrated installment in Laura Ingalls Wilder's "Little House" series—and the volume often placed third in the reading order. Here young Lau…
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Rating 4.2
Beatrice and Virgil 扬·马特尔 Yilin Press · 2018 Beatrice and Virgil is a novel by the Canadian writer Yann Martel, author of Life of Pi, published after that book's great success; its original title…
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Rating 4.2
The Honest Man Voltaire Yilin Press · 2018 Candide is Voltaire's representative philosophical novel. The protagonist, Candide, was born in the castle of a German baron; he is the illegitimate s…
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Rating 4.2
Pride and Prejudice Jane Austen Yilin Press · 2018 Pride and Prejudice is the representative work of the English novelist Jane Austen. The first draft was completed in 1797 under the title First Impres…

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)