Twilight, a thriller by American woman writer Stephenie Meyer. The story describes the romantic love story between Bella, a middle school student, and Edward, a handsome young vampire. In the United States alone, the Twilight series sold more than 50 million copies in the United States. In many countries in the world, it is also the best-selling book on the charts. Magic masterpieces in the post-Harry Potter era have become the representatives of international magic series The Lord of the Rings Trilogy, Harry Potter Series, The Legend of Narnia and Twilight Series.
Book copyright
Chinese
Publishing House: Relay Publishing House
Binding: paperback
Page number: 32
Chinese: Chinese
Title: Twilight
Twilight-Twilight 384 pages 29.80 yuan.
The price of 409 pages of Twilight-New Moon is 32.00 yuan.
Twilight-Eclipse, 476 pages, 35.00 yuan.
The price of 598 pages of Breaking Dawn is 39.80 yuan. Translation: Gong Ping Zhang Yalin.
English
Publisher: Little Brown Company
Twilight
Date of publication: June 9, 2006
Us/can price: $ 19.99/$2 1.99.
ISBN(ISBN code): 9780316160193.
Page count: 608 pages
Size (size-inch): 5- 1/2 inches x 8- 1/4 inches.
New moon
Date of publication: June 9, 2006
Us/can price: $ 19.99/$2 1.99.
ISBN(ISBN code): 9780316160193.
Page count: 608 pages
Size (size-inch): 5- 1/2 inches x 8- 1/4 inches.
eclipse
Publication date: August 4, 2009
Us/Canada price: $ 12.99/$ 14.99.
ISBN(ISBN code): 97803 16027656
Page count: 640 pages
Size (size-inch): 5- 1/2 inches x 8- 1/4 inches.
Dawn
Publication date: August 2, 2008
US/Canada price: $22.99/$23.99.
ISBN(ISBN code): 97803 16067928
Page count: 768 pages
Size (size-inch): 5- 1/2 inches x 8- 1/4 inches.
[Edit this paragraph] Cover meaning
Twilight: Stephenie Meyer pointed out that the apple on the cover of Twilight represents the forbidden fruit on the tree of good and evil in Genesis. It symbolizes the forbidden love between humans and vampires between Bella and Edward. At the beginning of the book, Genesis 2: 17 is quoted: "You shall not eat only the fruit of the tree of distinguishing good from evil, because you will die on the day you eat it." This also represents how Bella distinguishes between good and evil-whether to eat the forbidden fruit or not-which is a metaphor for choosing to stay with Edward or stay away from him. The Twilight series Twilight, New Moon, Eclipse, Dawn and Midnight Sunshine are named after the profit and loss of Sun and Moon Guanghua, which perfectly fit the ups and downs of the protagonist's fate and the complicated and changeable mood story: from Twilight, which meets day and night, to the heartbreak of the new moon and the trauma of the eclipse, readers are puzzled. The Twilight series focuses on the emotional entanglements between isabella swan and edward cullen, which are evil lovers, and combines various eye-catching elements such as vampire legends, werewolf stories, campus life, horror suspense and comedy adventures. And touching love is the "strongest emotion" in the book. In the words of the author's own idol writer orson scott card, "Love is only a small part of the book, but it is a guide to life." Although the Twilight series stories are simple, the emotions contained in them are enough to shock people. The author Mel said: "My story actually has a moral. No matter what difficulties a person encounters in life, no matter what you think you have to do, you always have other choices and there is always another way out. As long as the belief remains unchanged and you truly believe in yourself, you will definitely open the dark clouds and see the sky. "
Complementing the book covers, the unique cover design of Twilight series conveys the profound meaning of each book. The long and pale hands on the cover of Twilight represent Edward holding a mouth-watering red apple like Bella, just like a treasure! Apple stands for the Bible? The forbidden fruit eaten by Eve in Genesis, the first volume of the Old Testament, means that the love between the hero and heroine is of course forbidden. The cover of New Moon symbolizes that the love between Bella and Edward withered like blood, and the red and white tulips fell to the ground cruelly. On behalf of Bella, because she lost Edward's company, she had no survival goal and experienced the darkest period in her life. The smooth torn ribbon on the cover of Eclipse seems to break as soon as it is pulled, symbolizing that the love triangle between Bella, Edward and Jacob Bubu may collapse at any time, and Bella's ecstatic mood of not knowing who to turn her heart to; The cover of Dawn uses two chess pieces to compare Bella's progress in the whole series: white chess is the strongest queen and red chess is the weakest soldier. When a soldier of one side reaches the bottom line of the other side (that is, the farthest line from one side), the player can choose to upgrade the soldier to a car, a horse, an elephant or a queen, but not a king or a queen. Bella was the weakest person at first, but after the experience of life and the superposition of experiences, she finally became a person who would succeed in one fell swoop.
introduce
"Please don't just think of it as an incredible and unrealistic love adventure. When you have touched a similar feeling in your love journey, it is that the legend of Twilight has written a true love movement for you. They were also 17 years old when they met that year; He/Kloc-was held by his mother when he was 0/7 years old and fled the town a few months after his birth. And one day, she will be old, and he will still maintain the youthful appearance of 17 years old ... The operation of the life time roulette is solidified for him, but it is fast flowing for her. His youth will last forever, and her youth will eventually decay. "
[Edit this paragraph] Introduction
dusk
Bella exiled herself to Fox, a remote and rainy town all year round. She never imagined that it was this choice that made her meet him at the crossroads of fate. At the moment when their eyes met, they knew that there was a dangerous abyss besides the temptation of happiness. Two lovers swing between love and danger, and spend fresh and exciting days together, just like the long-lost sunshine, falling in the romantic twilight city.
Since he has a charming appearance, superhuman body and the ability to see through people's hearts, who is he? And she is just an ordinary girl with poor motor nerves and pale skin. The year they met was 17 years old. The wheel of time is fixed for him, but it turns very fast for her. His youth will last forever, and hers will eventually decay. Do their worlds really intersect? Since Adam and Eve stole the forbidden fruit, facing the whirlpool of love and hate, human beings are always at a loss.
Happiness moves slowly, and the waves wait for opportunities. When a fragile girl wants to integrate into an unnatural world, the danger she faces is far more difficult than kissing a kind devil. At dusk after a beautiful day, this ups and downs adventure story has just begun.
The author vividly depicts the emotional confusion and confusing emotional entanglements of the protagonist in adolescence. Meticulous description, elegant words, arouse readers' endless imagination, true and untrue stories, twists and turns, arouse readers' continuous reading impulse. In the refreshing tenderness and lingering, readers witnessed the brilliance of youth, the beauty of first love, the struggle between reason and emotion, and the struggle between soul and body. ...
Supplement: Twilight tells the love story of a pair of wicked mandarin ducks. /kloc-bella swan, the 0/7-year-old heroine, is a witty, sweet and popular girl. Since moving to a small town to live with her father, she met a mysterious classmate, edward cullen, who came from a vegetarian vampire family, but Bella's special scent attracted him-he wanted to suck her blood as soon as he smelled the scent. Please don't just think of it as an incredible and unrealistic love adventure. When you have touched a similar feeling in your love journey, it is that the legend of Twilight has written a true love movement for you. They were also 17 years old when they met that year; He/Kloc-was held by his mother when he was 0/7 years old and fled the town a few months after his birth. And one day, she will be old, and he will still maintain the youthful appearance of 17 years old ... The operation of the life time roulette is solidified for him, but it is fast flowing for her. His youth will last forever, but hers will eventually decay.
crescent
Edward is deeply infatuated with Bella and loves her unique fragrance. However, happy times are always short-lived. At 18 birthday party, Bella accidentally cut her arm, and the flowing blood reminded Edward's family of their bloodthirsty nature. Edward and his family left Foxton to protect their loved ones.
After Edward left, Bella's world completely collapsed, and she began to try all kinds of adventures, because she found that Edward's voice would appear in her mind as long as she did something dangerous. Bella's masochistic madness did not change Edward's mind. At this time, the young and unruly Jacob appeared in her pale world. Although he knew Bella had someone else in his heart, he still accompanied and protected her affectionately. One is a rock-solid cold alien, and the other is a passionate werewolf. How will Bella decide ... Edward mistakenly thought that Bella had jumped into the sea and could not bear such a sudden and huge blow, so he decided to end it all. Twilight fades away, waiting for them is a crescent moon, which indicates the darkest night on the horizon. Will Bella and Edward fall into this eternal dark world? Can they find another person more precious than themselves before the end of their lives and save the most wonderful love in the world together?
"New Moon" appreciates the strange fate of life and death, and brings readers into a more magical and diverse world than ordinary youth novels. Instead of accompanying Bella through the first darkest period of her life, the reader experienced an impossible love experience in the magical world with Mel's wonderful pen. Edward's struggle, Bella's appeal for love and Jacob's desire for true love run through the novel, which explains the eternal theme of love well. Mel controls the reader's heartbeat with her unique brushwork and genius ability. It is inevitable that enthusiastic readers will either hold their breath or cry when they are with Bella.
Eclipse-eclipse
Bella, who is about to graduate from middle school, is in a dilemma: she wants to choose a lover between Edward and Jacob, and this choice is likely to trigger a bloody war between the Cullen family and the werewolf group ... Bella, covered in blood, would rather die than be with Edward, but Edward will not allow her to do so before getting married. On the other hand, Jacob's intervention made their feelings red. When Bella visited the injured Jacob, Jacob took her to his home, took the opportunity to confess to her, and kissed her strongly regardless of her wishes. This forced kiss was deeply imprinted on Bella's heart, and Bella could not understand Jacob's feelings.
When Bella was suffering from choosing a lover, she found that someone had stolen something from her room in order to sniff out her residence by tracking the smell on it. Bella connects all kinds of accidents in the past and finally understands that Victoria from the legendary crane family is the mastermind behind everything. In order to avenge James' death, Victoria is gathering a group of accomplices to go to Fox, which poses a great threat to Edward and Bella's life. The Cullen family decided to unite with the werewolf group to deal with the same enemy. The contradiction between ice and fire is irreconcilable. On the balance of love and sacrifice, Bella found that she wanted to give more than just her soul. ...
What should you live for when you can live forever? Eclipse unveiled the veil of darkness and showed the struggle between spirit and flesh. How to solve the contradiction between Cullen family and werewolf community? Did Edward, who is kind as an angel, and Bella, who is fragile as glass, go to the altar of marriage and walk into the Garden of Eden hand in hand, or live an ordinary human life with Bella's childhood friend Jacob? From the twilight alternating day and night to the heartbreak of the new moon and the trauma of the eclipse, the puzzles in readers' minds will be solved one by one at dawn, and the complicated truth will eventually be revealed in the midnight sunshine.
dawn
When life is all you can give to the person you love, how can you not give him your life? For Bella, after hopelessly falling in love with Edward, life is like a sweet fantasy, an unfathomable and terrible nightmare. No matter what choice she makes, it will affect the fate of both ethnic groups. From the moment they held hands for the first time, Bella and Edward knew that each other was the other half they were looking for, and love warmed their souls like sunshine after rain. Happiness makes people feel warm, but it makes people walk on thin ice. The forbidden love between two people in different worlds, like a manic storm, afflicts two fragile hearts. Since Bella made a brave decision, a series of unprecedented and amazing events followed. In this turbulent year, temptation and conflict will lead her to the last critical moment. What will happen to Bella's dancing mood? What will be the ultimate fate of her, Edward and Jacob? Just like the dawn after a long night, this thrilling and endless romance finally ushered in a surprising and breathless ending.
Midnight sun
The content of Twilight is described from Edward's point of view. Mel profoundly portrayed the role of Edward with delicate thoughts and gentle and beautiful brushstrokes. And because the hero has the ability to read minds, it shows Bella's first arrival in Foxton more vividly and concretely. Show readers a more vivid, concrete and real Edward.
Note: Because the publishing house published the first chapter 12 of Midnight Sun without the author's permission, the author decided to suspend his creation. Recently, due to the strong demand of readers, the author will consider continuing to create.
[Edit this paragraph] Author introduction
Lin Meizhen Meyer was born in Connecticut, USA, and graduated from Brigham Young University, majoring in English literature. She is a housewife with three children and has no writing experience. One night in 2003, she had a dream that changed her fate: a young girl and a handsome and charming man were sitting on the sunny grass talking about love. That man is a vampire, but they are in love. He is telling his lover how hard it is for him to restrain his desire to kill her. This dream eventually became a chapter in her first best-selling novel Twilight.
After the publication of Twilight, Mel wrote New Moon, Eclipse, Dawn and Midnight Sunshine, which are called Twilight series. The drama is based on the emotional entanglement between isabella swan and edward cullen, a pair of wicked mandarin ducks, and combines various eye-catching elements such as vampire legends, werewolf stories, campus life, horror suspense and comedy adventures. And touching love is the "strongest emotion" in the book. In the words of the author's own idol writer orson scott card, "Love is only a small part of the book, but it is a guide to life."
Lin Meizhen Meyer has made remarkable achievements in her young career. With the continuous introduction of new works, she will further establish her position as a first-class bestseller in the publishing industry. In May 2008, Stephenie Meyer was named one of the most influential people in the world 100 by Time magazine.
Speaking of future writing plans, Mel said that there are still many creative inspirations waiting for her to tap. She said, "I might write a book about mermaids, because that was what I was most interested in when I was a child."
The author comes from a well-trained background and has a deep understanding of English language and literature. In her works by Wang Yang, the parting of life and death in Romeo and Juliet, the elegant initiative in Pride and Prejudice, and the tangled conflict in Wuthering Heights are all presented to readers in a very simple way, while the lingering tragic color hidden under the veil of love is as simple and desolate as ancient Greek drama, which makes Twilight. Twilight series may be just a love story of a high school student, but with the background of supernatural power, everything becomes emotional. It will remain in our memory forever, just like the beauty of youth. Time magazine in the United States commented on the Twilight series as follows: "It is full of tension of love and hate, but as elegant and exquisite as Jane Austen, reaching the acme of romantic novels."
Mel has surpassed people's imagination and become an alternative literary phenomenon. In the eyes of many book critics, the ups and downs of the plot, fantastic stories, delicate and sincere emotional descriptions and touching love themes are all eye-catching capital of the Twilight series. Even the part about vampires and werewolves mainly advocates not violence and blood, but elegant and clean moral standards, which provides a different scene for dating, that is, gossip girl (. A reporter once asked Mel how to explain the rapid sales of the Twilight series. She thinks this is because every girl can find her own shadow in the heroine isabella swan. "She is not a hero, also don't know those famous brands, not cool, is the average person. The heroines in other literary works are often extraordinary. Bella is a good girl, just like I imagined a teenage girl. " She also believes that the Twilight series is positioned as a youth novel because the age of seventeen or eighteen is a very eye-catching period in life, during which you can have the worst trauma in your life and the happiest memories in your life. It was a fascinating age: enough to think like an adult, enough to make decisions that affect my life, enough to fall in love, but at the same time too young to think and make decisions independently, which also gave me a lot of room for my novels. Dawn, the last episode of the Twilight series, shocked the market. Recently, I learned from Relay Press that following the worldwide release of the film of the same name adapted from Twilight and the sales of the first three simplified Chinese versions of Twilight series exceeded 620,000 copies, the last episode of Twilight series was also listed recently, with the first print of 6.5438+0.8 million copies.
The simplified Chinese version of Twilight series was introduced and published by Relay Press in August, 2008, and it has been sought after and loved by many readers for its rich youth and times color. The first three books Twilight, New Moon and Eclipse have sold more than 620,000 copies.
Domestic critics also highly praised the book, and young literary writer An Yiru praised Mel's delicate and coherent narrative for awakening people's frozen youth. Rao Xueman said that Bella, the protagonist of Twilight, is sensitive, delicate, weak and stubborn, which is a true portrayal of many lovely girls who are not perfect in reality but look forward to Prince Charming. The famous publisher An Boshun believes that when reading the book, the rich details in the book can almost surround people like a flood, and the "frozen feeling of youth" suddenly recovers; Yu Zhongxian, editor-in-chief of World Literature, thinks that "after reading this book carefully, no matter in the 1980s, 1970s or 1960s, we can arouse some feelings and some beautiful memories of our youth", and Cecilia Han, a famous young female artist, also publicly recommended this set of books in the media.
In the finale Dawn, Bella makes the final decision, and a series of unprecedented amazing events will be accompanied by unpredictable results. In this turbulent year, temptation and conflict will lead Bella to the last critical moment. What will happen to Bella's dancing mood? What will be her ultimate fate with Edward and Jacob? Like the dawn after darkness, Dawn illuminates the surprising and suffocating ending of this thrilling romance.
The first print run of Breaking Dawn was as high as 6.5438+0.8 million copies. Coupled with the sales of the first three volumes, the simplified Chinese version of Twilight has now exceeded 800,000 volumes, making it the hottest imported book series. Industry insiders estimate that the simplified Chinese version of Twilight will break through 654.38+0 million copies just around the corner. And Stephanie, the author of the Twilight series? The first book of another super best-selling series written by host Mel will be listed around July.
As the last part of the Twilight series, the final edition printed 3.7 million copies in foreign countries, and the English version of Dawn was officially released by Little Brown Junior Publishing Company at 0: 0 1 on Saturday, August 2nd, 2008. The first print run of "Breaking Dawn" reached 3.7 million copies, and the number of pre-sales only made it ranked in the forefront of Amazon's website rankings for several months in a row, with sales reaching 6.5438+0.3 million copies on the first day of listing. Up to now, the global sales of Twilight series have exceeded 50 million copies, creating a Harry Potter? The most outstanding publishing miracle after Potter. Midnight Sun was written from the viewpoint of Edward, the protagonist. It was originally planned to be published in 2009, but the author suspended the creation of Midnight Sun because the first 13 draft of the book was published on the Internet without the author's permission. So far, the release date of the book is still uncertain.
Twilight movie DVD ranks among the best-selling DVDs. Based on Twilight, the first film of Twilight, a Hollywood youth romance blockbuster was released in North America on120, 2008, replacing the original movie schedule of harry potter and the half-blood prince. After that, it beat 007 and Lightning Dog at the box office of 75 million yuan in North America. Twilight DVD and Blu-ray Disc, which are highly anticipated by fans all over the world, were also released in North America on March 2 1 2009 by Summit Entertainment, the producer of the film. For this reason, Summit Entertainment held a grand midnight press conference in the United States. Twilight DVD sold more than 5.6 million copies in the first week, ranking among the highest-grossing DVDs in recent years.
The film New Moon and Eclipse was shot intensively in 2009. After the movie Twilight was a huge box office success, the second movie of Twilight series, New Moon, also started shooting in Vancouver, Canada in late March, and the third movie, Eclipse, was also put on the agenda. Its director is Hollywood gold medal director Chris, who directed The Golden Compass. Weitz and David, the famous director who directed the widely acclaimed thrillers "Hard Candy of Fruit" and "Night 30"? Slade, New Moon and Eclipse will be filmed back to back, and the release dates will be set at 20091October 20th 165438 and June 30th, 2065438 +00 respectively. It is reported that the Twilight series is likely to be made into an animated version in Japan.
The Relationship between Twilight and Pride and Prejudice, Romeo and Juliet and Wuthering Heights
Twilight corresponds to arrogance and prejudice. Edward is Darcy, and he began to be rude to Bella. He likes Bella, but he doesn't want to admit it Bella was prejudiced against Edward when she didn't know that Edward liked her.
The new moon corresponds to Romeo and Juliet. When Edward thought Bella was dead, he decided to die.
The eclipse naturally corresponds to Wuthering Heights. Bella said in the book: fall in love with such a terrible person. Jacob and Edward, like Edgar and Heathcliff, Bella struggled in their love. . . I saw Wuthering Heights recently and found that Heathcliff's wife's name is Isabella.
Chronology of works
Twilight series Muguang City series
1. Twilight
2. New Moon "New Moon" (2006)
3. Eclipse (2007)
4. Breaking Dawn "Breaking Dawn" (2008)
Other works
* Prom Night from Hell "Short Story of Graduation Party from Hell" (part, 2007)
* Moderator "Moderator" (2008)
Twilight: The Official Guide Twilight: The Official Guide Book (2009)
Special honor
Twilight quickly won many awards as soon as it was released, including:
* Some editors in The New York Times.
* Publishers' Weekly Book of the Year.
* Amazon. Com's "Best Books in the Last Ten Years"
* Youth magazine "best seller" list
* American Library Association's "Top Ten Excellent Books for Teenagers" and "Top Ten Best Series"
:: Translation into 20 languages
In 2008, the new work "Host" was also well received, and it stayed in The New York Times's "best seller" list for 26 weeks.
Twilight series Twilight has published four books: Twilight: In 2005, Stephenie Meyer tried to cry for the first time. Throughout 2005, Twilight was the most popular bestseller. This book soared to the top of the list within a few weeks, ranking fifth in The New York Times bestseller list. Since then, the book has stayed on the bestseller list in The New York Times for 56 weeks, including five weeks at the top of the list.
"New Moon": The second "New Moon" was listed in August 2006 and ranked as "new york Time".
The newspaper's bestseller list lasted for 52 weeks, with 3 1 week topping the list. Readers are so eager to see New Moon that the auction price of its limited trial edition in Yi Bei is as high as $380.
Eclipse: The third eclipse was released on August 7, 2007, which caused a sensation in the United States and then caused a sensation in the world. The first print of the book was 6.5438+0.5 million copies, and the sales volume on the first day of listing exceeded 6.5438+0.5 million copies, pushing Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows from the top of the bestseller list. A week later, it sold 250,000 copies and won the titles of The New York Times, USA-Today and The Wall Street Journal. Driven by it, Twilight's first two films, Twilight and New Moon, also joined hands to re-enter the bestseller list.
Dawn: It will be published by Brown Junior Publishing Company on August 2nd, 2008.
It was officially launched at 0 1 on Saturday morning. The countdown to the publication of Breaking Dawn will officially begin on Saturday, May 3, 2008, during the American Book Fair, the largest book event in the United States.
Midnight Sun: The fifth midnight sun is described in Edward's tone (the first four are described from Bella's point of view). At present, because the author's first draft was published online without the author's consent, the author suspended the creation of Midnight Sun, and the release date is unknown. This book has stopped writing. )
Up to now, the Twilight series has sold more than 6,543.8+million copies worldwide, and the copyright has been transferred to nearly 40 countries, staying on the The New York Times bestseller list for more than 654.38+050 weeks. Not only that, this series of books also won various awards, such as Amazon.com's best book in the last decade and The New York Times's best novel of the year.
Novel evaluation:
Full of tension of love and hate, but as elegant and exquisite as Jane Austen, it reaches the extreme of romantic novels.
Time
Mel's delicate and subtle brushwork makes this amazing novel surpass the limitations of horror suspense literature and rank among the best juvenile novels.
-American Amazon Book Network
There are emotional entanglements that are at arm's length, twists and turns of adventures, magnificent and peculiar extraordinary imagination, vivid scene description, thrilling reading pleasure and warm comfort that directly hits the soul.
-The New York Times
In Mel's works, the ill-fated passion runs through the whole work, and the supernatural elements are even more fascinating.
-Publishers Weekly
Realistic, subtle, concise and easy to read, the Twilight series will make readers deeply immersed in it.
—— School Library Monthly
In the past ten years, apart from Harry Potter by J.K. Rowling and Ilaron and The Elder by Christopher Paulini, few other works have won the favor and admiration of young readers like Stephenie Meyer's Twilight series.
-USA Today
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