novella

Based on his 1997 children’s novella, this economical piece of autofiction chronicles a life-changing cross-country flight in 1962 from Travolta’s childhood home in New Jersey to the sunny streets of Los Angeles.

From Salon ● Jun. 2, 2026

Andy Serkis directs an animated, awkwardly contemporary adaptation of the anti-Stalinist novella featuring the voices of Seth Rogen, Glenn Close, Woody Harrelson and more.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Apr. 30, 2026

More than 80 years after he was created in Albert Camus’s 1942 novella “The Stranger,” Meursault is still the same chilling prophet of alienation, a walking caricature of emotionlessness who is nevertheless spellbinding.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Apr. 2, 2026

Whether Egg had Maekar’s permission to join Dunk’s travels as his squire is left more open ended in the novella itself.

From Los Angeles Times ● Feb. 22, 2026

Not since her week in Primrose Hill, typing out the novella, and what a foolish excitement that seemed now.

From "Atonement" by Ian McEwan

The novellas are composed of nested stories inspired by Scheherazade’s tales in “One Thousand and One Nights.”

From The Wall Street Journal ● Apr. 8, 2026

Martin’s Dunk and Egg novellas also questions whether those who inherit rulership deserve that duty, reflecting their cravenness in shining gleam of its heroes’ virtue.

From Salon ● Feb. 23, 2026

The film comes courtesy of the softer side of Stephen King, adapted from a story in his 2020 collection of novellas, “If It Bleeds.”

From Salon ● Jun. 15, 2025

“I wasn’t familiar with Martha’s novellas, so I just heard the title and I heard ‘sci-fi,’ ” Skarsgård says, speaking over the phone from Los Angeles.

From Los Angeles Times ● Jun. 13, 2025

NM: 2 rev. novellas with illus. © 30Mar50; A42861.

From U.S. Copyright Renewals, 1977 July - December by Library of Congress. Copyright Office

Included in the novel's 496-page sweep are three brilliant novelle: Ensign Woodbridge's encounter with the hypocritical missionaries, the story of the Irish monk and the satanic trader, Parker, and Seaman O'Connell on a berserk rampage.

From Time Magazine Archive

The advance was due partly, no doubt, to a perception of the heroic absurdities of French fiction, but also to the study of Italian novelle and the "Exemplary Novels" of Cervantes.

From The Life and Romances of Mrs. Eliza Haywood by Whicher, George Frisbie

I went one day with a friend of mine to a pique-nique party at the Cascino, where a laughable adventure occurred perfectly in the stile of the novelle of Boccacio.

From After Waterloo: Reminiscences of European Travel 1815-1819 by Frye, Major W. E

You read the songs that I make, sweet lady," he said, "and now will you listen while I tell you a story, a novelle?

From Sir Mortimer by Johnston, Mary

And these novelle became, as is generally known, common in English translations after the middle of the sixteenth century.

From The English Novel by Saintsbury, George