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Necropolis is a re-write of the 1989 novel Day of the Dragon, which is part of Horowitz’s unfinished Pentagram series. A noteworthy difference from the original novel is the gender-swapping of the lead character Will Tyler to a female counterpart called Scarlett Adams, who is also Horowitz's first female literary hero.
Necropolis (Slovene: Nekropola) is an autobiographical novel by Boris Pahor about his Holocaust experience. It has been compared to works by Primo Levi , Imre Kertész , and Jorge Semprún . Plot summary
Necropolis (Copper novel), a 1980 gothic novel by Basil Copper; Necropolis (Horowitz novel), a 2008 'Power of Five' novel by Anthony Horowitz; Necropolis (Judge Dredd story), a Judge Dredd storyline that ran in 2000 AD and the Judge Dredd Megazine; Necropolis, the third novel in Dan Abnett's Gaunt's Ghosts series; Necrópolis, a 2009 novel by ...
His autobiographical novel Nekropola, published in 1967, was first translated into English (in 1995) as Pilgrim Among the Shadows, and secondly (in 2010) as Necropolis. The novel has also been translated into several other languages. Pahor was a prominent public figure in the Slovene minority in Italy, who were affected by Fascist Italianization.
The book also establishes the Ghosts' rivalry with the "Royal Volpone" guard regiment and their commanding officer, Colonel (later General) Sturm, which plays out in the subsequent novel Necropolis. After the fall of Tanith, the book is focused on four main theatres of operation:
A necropolis (pl.: necropolises, necropoles, necropoleis, necropoli [1]) is a large, designed cemetery with elaborate tomb monuments. The name stems from the Ancient Greek νεκρόπολις nekropolis ( lit.
The Power of Five (known as The Gatekeepers in the US) is a series of five fantasy and suspense novels, written by English author Anthony Horowitz.Published between 2005 and 2012, it is an updated re-imagining of Horowitz's Pentagram series, which the author had left unfinished in the 1980s after he only wrote four of the five planned books in the series.
Anthony John Horowitz CBE (born 5 April 1955) is an English novelist and screenwriter specialising in mystery and suspense. His works for children and young adult readers include the Alex Rider series featuring a 14-year-old British boy who spies for MI6, The Power of Five series (known as The Gatekeepers in the USA), and The Diamond Brothers series.