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Eclipse
Sign in to savethird novel in the Twilight Saga by Stephenie Meyer
Key facts
- Author
- Stephenie Meyer
- Language
- English
- Series
- Twilight series
- Genre
- Young adult , Fantasy , Romance
- Publisher
- Little, Brown
- Publication date
- August 7, 2007 (hardcover) February 26, 2009 (kindle) August 4, 2009 (US paperback) August 13, 2009 (paperback)
- Publication place
- United States
- Media type
- Print (Hardcover, Paperback) , e-Book ( Kindle ) , Audio Book (CD)
- Isbn
- 978-0-316-16020-9
- Library of congress classification span
- PZ7.M5717515 Ec 2007
- Preceded by
- New Moon
- Followed by
- Breaking Dawn
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Wikidata facts
- Instance of
- literary work
- Author
- Stephenie Meyer
- Genre
- fantasy
- Country of origin
- United States
- Publisher
- Little, Brown and Company
- Series
- Twilight
- Followed by
- Breaking Dawn
- Follows
- New Moon
- Narrative location
- Seattle
- Image
- Twilight Saga.jpg
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- characters
- Bella Swan
- publication date
- 2007-08-07
- language of work or name
- English language
- title
- Eclipse
- derivative work
- The Twilight Saga: Eclipse
- form of creative work
- novel
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Encyclopedic overview
Eclipse (stylized as eclipse) is the third novel in the Twilight Saga by Stephenie Meyer. It continues the story of Bella Swan and her vampire love, Edward Cullen. The novel explores Bella's compromise between her love for Edward and her friendship with shape-shifter Jacob Black, along with her dilemma of leaving her mortality behind in a terrorized atmosphere, a result of mysterious vampire attacks in Seattle.
Eclipse is preceded by New Moon and followed by Breaking Dawn. The book was released on August 7, 2007, with an initial print run of one million copies, and sold more than 150,000 copies in the first 24 hours alone. Eclipse was the fourth bestselling book of 2008, only behind Twilight, New Moon, and Breaking Dawn. A film adaptation of the novel was released on June 30, 2010.
Excerpted from Wikipedia’s “Eclipse” article, available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 licence.