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A unique "double" edition in which the same story is told in different ways.

The first part is the famous “Twilight” in a new translation. But the second is a new project by Stephenie Meyer, a complete “reboot” of the cult novel!

Do you want to know what would happen if Bella was a boy and Edward was a girl?

So, young Beaufort Swan moves to the boring town of Forks, who is about to meet the mysterious beauty Edith Cullen, and this meeting will change his life forever...

The work belongs to the genre of Horror and Mysticism. It was published in 2005 by AST Publishing House. The book is part of the Twilight Saga series. On our website you can download the book "Twilight / Life and Death: Twilight. Reimagined" in fb2, rtf, epub, pdf, txt format or read online. The book's rating is 3.43 out of 5. Here, before reading, you can also turn to reviews from readers who are already familiar with the book and find out their opinion. In our partner's online store you can buy and read the book in paper form.

Twilight / Life and Death: Twilight. Rethinking Stephenie Meyer

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Title: Twilight / Life and Death: Twilight. Rethinking
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Year: 2005, 2015
Genre: Foreign fantasy, Books about vampires, Romance fantasy, Horror and Mysticism

About the book “Twilight / Life and Death: Twilight. Rethinking by Stephenie Meyer

A unique "double" edition in which the same story is told in different ways.

The first part is the famous “Twilight” in a new translation. But the second is a new project by Stephenie Meyer, a complete “reboot” of the cult novel!

Do you want to know what would happen if Bella was a boy and Edward was a girl?

So, young Beaufort Swan moves to the boring town of Forks, who is about to meet the mysterious beauty Edith Cullen, and this meeting will change his life forever...

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Stephenie Meyer

Life and death

The translation was prepared by a team of translators from the website www.twilightrussia.ru

The text is provided for informational purposes and is not intended for commercial gain.

Preface

To all my wonderful friends and readers:

Happy tenth anniversary! It's hard to believe that so much time has passed since this all started. And yet, my kids have grown into huge teenagers, so I can't escape the truth.

Thank you for a ten-year adventure that exceeded my wildest dreams. I'm a very realistic person, but my experiences with readers have made me believe - well, just a little - in magic.

To celebrate this milestone in the journey, I've written a new bonus feature designed to bring you some Twilight fun. (In typical Stephenie Meyer fashion, the bonus material is actually longer than Twilight.) You can re-read Twilight or start reading Life and Death. I absolutely loved being back in Forks again, and I hope you have as much experience and enjoyment as I did.

You are fantastic and I love you.

To my boys - Gabe, Seth and Eli - for letting me feel what it's like to be a teenage boy. I could not have written this book without you.

PREFACE

Hello dear reader!

Happy Anniversary again and welcome to the new 10th Anniversary Bonus Feature!

First and foremost:

EXCUSE ME.

I know there's going to be a lot of sobbing and gnashing of teeth about this material because it's: a) largely, but not entirely, new; b) not "Midnight Sun". (If you think that I do not fully feel your pain, then rest assured, my mother conveyed this to me more than clearly.) I will explain how everything happened, and I hope that a lot of things will become, if not better, then at least clearer .

Just recently, my agent contacted me and asked if I had anything in mind for the tenth anniversary of Twilight? The publisher was counting on a parting word like an “anniversary letter.” It seemed to me... well, to be honest, very boring. What could be said that is so fun and exciting? Nothing. So I thought about what else I could do, and if it makes you feel any better, Midnight Sun immediately came to mind. The problem was time - as usual, there was none at all. Certainly not enough to write a novel or even half of it.

Reflecting on Twilight after a long hiatus and discussing anniversary issues with friends, I thought back to what I had said before at book signings and interviews. You know, Bella was often criticized for constantly having to be rescued from numerous scrapes, and people complained that she was a typical "damsel in distress." To this I always answered that Bella is a person in trouble, a normal person, surrounded on all sides by superheroes and supervillains. She was also criticized for being too preoccupied with her love, as if this quality was unique to girls. But I always insisted that it makes no difference whether the guy is a human and the girl is a vampire, it will be exactly the same story. Regardless of gender or biology, Twilight has always been a story about magic, obsession and the fury of first love.

So I had an idea: what if I experimented with this theory? Should be funny. As usual, I decided that this would be one or two chapters. (It’s both fun and sad, but it seems I still don’t know myself very well.) Remember what I said about the lack of time? Luckily, this project was not only fun, but also easy and quick. In the end, it turned out that the difference between a girl in love with a vampire and a guy in love with a vampire is small. This is how Bo and Edith were born.

A couple of notes about the changes:

1. I have changed the gender of all Twilight characters, but there are two exceptions.

The biggest exception is Charlie and Renee, who remain Charlie and Renee. There is an explanation for this: Bo was born in 1987. In those days, fathers rarely received primary custody, especially if the child was young. Most likely, the mother should have been declared incapable of fulfilling maternal responsibilities for some reason. And I really find it hard to believe that any judge back then (or even now) would give a child to an impulsive, unemployed father over a mother with a stable job and strong ties to the community. Of course, if Charlie were fighting for Bella now, he would probably be able to take her away from Renee. Thus, Twilight plays out the least likely scenario. Only the fact that several decades ago maternal rights were considered more important than paternal ones, and the fact that Charlie lacks a grudge, allowed Renee to raise Bella - and, as in our case, now Beau.

The second exception is very small - only a few background characters, mentioned only twice. The reason for this is my misplaced sense of justice towards fictional people. There were two truly recurring characters in the expanded Twilight universe. And instead of replacing them, I gave them freedom. This doesn't change anything in the plot. Consider this just my weirdness and indulgence in my neurosis.

2. Much more of the changes in this bonus were due to Bo's human status, so I decided to group them for you. Of course, these are rough estimates. I did not count all the changed words, nor did I perform any other mathematical operations.

5% of the changes are due to the fact that Beau is a guy.

5% of the changes are due to Bo's personality developing slightly differently than Bella's. The biggest difference is that he suffers more from obsessive-compulsive disorder, his thoughts and words are not as flowery, and he is not as angry - he completely lacks the burden of flaws that Bella carried on her shoulders all the time.

70% of the changes saw the light of day because I got the opportunity to edit the text ten years later. I corrected almost every word that had bothered me since the book went to print, and it was great.

10% is something I regret not doing initially, but which I didn’t think about before. It may seem that this point is equivalent to the previous one, but still it is slightly different. We are not talking about words that sounded awkward and clumsy, but about ideas that, to my regret, were not born earlier, or about dialogues that should have taken place, but never took place.

5% relates to questions - or rather, errors - of mythology, usually regarding visions. As I continued to work on the Twilight sequels - and even on Midnight Sun, where I got to look inside Alice's head with Edward's help - the way Alice's visions worked was refined. In Twilight they're more mystical, and looking back now I can see situations where she should have been involved but wasn't. Oops!

The remaining 5% refers to changes made for a variety of undoubtedly selfish reasons.

I hope you find Bo and Edith's story funny, too, even if it's not what you expected. I really had a great time creating the new version. I suddenly fell passionately in love with Bo and Edith, and their story made the fantasy world of Forks feel fresh and happy again for me. I hope it will be the same for you. If you get even a tenth of the pleasure that I experienced, then it was worth it.

Thanks for reading. Thank you for being part of this world, and thank you for being an amazing and unexpected source of joy in my life over the past decade.

With love, Stephanie

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If his fate is bizarre, it is also sublime.

Jules Verne, 20 Thousand Leagues Under the Sea

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I've never seriously thought about death - although I've had good reason to do so in the last few months - but if I had to, I doubt I would have imagined anything like it.

I watched

across the long room into the dark eyes of the bloodhound, and she looked at me friendly.

At least it's a nice way to end your life: dying in place of someone you love. Probably even noble. Worth it.

I knew that if I had not gone to Forks, I would not be on the verge of death now. But even though I was overcome with fear, I could not bring myself to regret this decision. If life gives you a dream that is beyond anything you could have hoped for, it is unwise to grieve when the time comes to die.

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Twilight. Life and Death: Twilight. Rethinking (collection)

The exclusive rights to publish the book in Russian belong to AST Publishers.

Any use of the material in this book, in whole or in part, without the permission of the copyright holder is prohibited

LIFE AND DEATH (TWILIGHT REIMAGINED)

Reprinted with permission from Little, Brown and Company, New York, USA and Andrew Nurnberg Literary Agency.

Dedicated to my older sister Emily: if not for her enthusiasm, this story would have remained unfinished.

“But you shall not eat from the tree of the knowledge of good and evil;

for in the day that you eat of it you will surely die.”

To all my wonderful friends and readers.

Happy 10th Anniversary! It's hard to believe that it all started so long ago. However, my little ones have already grown into big teenagers, so I can’t hide from the truth.

Thank you for ten years of adventures that exceeded even my wildest expectations. I'm a very boring person, but the experiences I've had through the reading community have convinced me to believe in magic (a little bit).

To celebrate this important milestone, I've prepared some bonus content to enhance your enjoyment of the world of Twilight. (In true Stephenie Meyer tradition, the bonus is longer than Twilight.) You'll find it titled "Life and Death" if you turn the book over and start reading from the end. I was very glad to visit Forks again, and I hope you enjoy your visit as much as I did.

You are amazing, I love you.

Stephanie.

I never thought about how I would die, although in recent months there were plenty of reasons, and if I had, I could hardly have imagined that it would happen exactly like this.

Holding my breath, I stared at the opposite end of the long hall, straight into the hunter’s impenetrable eyes, and he kindly returned my gaze.

Of course, this is the right choice - to die like this, for the person you love. A dignified death. This means something.

I knew that if I had not come to Forks then, I would not be facing my death now. But even now, despite the horror that enveloped me, I felt no regrets. It is foolish to grieve that life is coming to an end, when in return fate offers to fulfill a dream that exceeds your wildest expectations.

The hunter smiled welcomingly and slowly moved to kill me.

1. First look

Mom drove me to the airport with the car windows rolled down. It was plus twenty-four in Phoenix, not a cloud in the sky—a perfect blue. As a sign of farewell to the city, I wore my favorite sleeveless top with white embroidery. There was a parka in my hand luggage.

On the Olympic Peninsula in northwestern Washington state, there is a town called Forks, almost constantly covered in cloud cover. It rains more often in this unremarkable town than anywhere else in the United States. From there, from this dull and omnipresent darkness, my mother ran away with me when I was only a few months old. There I then toiled there for a whole month every summer until, at fourteen, I finally declared that I had enough, so for the last three years my father, Charlie, has taken me on vacation to California for two whole weeks.

And she loved Phoenix - she loved the sun and the scorching heat, she loved this ebullient, freely sprawling city.

“Bella,” my mother said for the thousandth and last time before boarding the plane, “you don’t have to leave.”

My mother and I look alike, only she has short hair and wrinkles from frequent laughter. I looked into her childishly wide eyes, and a panic attack came over me. How can I abandon my gentle, eccentric, frivolous mother to the mercy of fate? True, Phil is taking care of her now, so the bills will be paid, there will be food in the refrigerator, gas in her mother's car, and if she gets lost, she will know who to call, but still...

“I want to leave,” I lied. I have never been able to lie, but lately I have repeated this lie so often that now it almost sounded believable.

- Say hi to Charlie.

- I'll pass it on.

“We’ll see you again soon,” she assured. “Come home whenever you want, and I’ll come back as soon as you need me.”

However, it was clearly visible in her eyes that this would be an unbearable sacrifice for her.

“Don’t worry so much,” I asked. - Everything will be wonderful. I love you, Mom.

For a minute she hugged me tightly to her, then I went to boarding, and my mother left.

It's a four-hour flight from Phoenix to Seattle, another hour on a small plane to Port Angeles, then an hour by car to Forks. I had nothing against flying, but the prospect of spending an hour in the car with Charlie worried me a little.

In this whole situation, Charlie showed exceptional nobility. He seemed really happy that I was coming to him for such a long time. And he had already enrolled me in a local school and was even going to help me get a car.

Still, awkwardness in Charlie's presence could not be avoided. We're both not particularly talkative, and I had no idea what to talk about with him. I knew that my decision puzzled him greatly: like my mother in her time, I did not hide the fact that I hated Forks.

It was raining when the plane landed in Port Angeles. I didn’t see this as a bad omen, but took it for granted. I have already said goodbye to the sun.

Charlie met me in a police car. As expected. To the law-abiding residents of Forks, he is Chief of Police Swan. I immediately decided not to delay the purchase of my own transport, even despite the lack of money, so as not to drive around the city with a red and blue “flashing light” on the roof. Police cars make traffic extremely difficult.

I awkwardly climbed out of the plane, and Charlie awkwardly hugged me with one arm.

“It’s good to see you, Bells,” he smiled and automatically supported me when I stumbled and almost fell. -You haven't changed much. How about Rene?

- Mom is doing well. “I’m glad to see you too, dad,” I wasn’t allowed to call him by name to his face.

I only had a few bags as luggage. Most of the clothes I wore in Arizona would not have protected me from the Washington rains. My mother and I combined our efforts to expand my winter wardrobe, but it still turned out to be modest and easily fit into the trunk of a patrol car.

“I found a good car, just right for you, and very inexpensive,” Charlie announced while we were fastening our seat belts.

-Which one? “I was alarmed by the tone in which he specified that this “not a bad car” would be “just right” for me.

“Well, actually it’s a Chevy pickup.”

-Where did you get it from?

– Remember Billy Black from La Push?

La Push was the name of a tiny Indian reservation on the coast.

“He used to fish with us in the summer,” Charlie recalled.

It’s clear why I forgot him: I tried to push painful and useless memories out of my head.

“Now he’s in a wheelchair,” Charlie continued, without waiting for an answer from me, “he doesn’t drive a car anymore, so he offered me his pickup truck.”

- What year?

I could tell from Charlie's face that he was hoping I wouldn't think to ask about it.

“Billy put so much work into the engine, and the car isn’t old at all...

Does Charlie think I'll give in so easily? Who does he take me for?

- When did he buy it?

– I think in one thousand nine hundred and eighty-four.

- Apparently not. It was new in the early sixties. Or, at the earliest, the late fifties,” he admitted sheepishly.

- Char... dad, I don’t know anything about cars. If it breaks, I won’t be able to fix it myself, and I can’t afford a car repair shop...

“You'll see, Bella, this thing runs great.” Now they don't make things like that.

I mentally noted the “thing”: it sounds promising – almost like the name.

– How much is “cheap”?

There could be no compromise on this issue.

“You know, honey, I think I already bought it for you.” As a gift for my arrival,” Charlie cast a quick glance in my direction, his face lit up with hope.

Wow, for nothing.

- Well, why are you, dad! I was going to buy a car with my own money.