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novella

[noh-vel-uh] / noʊˈvɛl ə /


NOUN
short story
Synonyms
Antonyms
WEAK


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To make it theatrical, they have also given each of the seven characters weight, artfully rebalancing the narrator’s strong voice in the novella.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 23, 2026

Editora 34 publishing house told AFP that its sales of the novella, one of Dostoevsky's earliest works, had jumped 463 percent year-on-year.

From Barron's ● Sep. 4, 2026

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

The first English-language edition of Trotzig’s 1964 novella “Queen”—one of the author’s greatest achievements—may help to fill that gap.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Apr. 3, 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

Transit recently released another Harpman book, “We Were Forbidden,” a trio of never-before translated novellas.

From Los Angeles Times ● Aug. 19, 2026

These three novellas were written in the 1920s, after the fall of the empire, and in their baroque translation by John Batki they cast back upon bygone times with wistfulness, charm and winking humor.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Apr. 8, 2026

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

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

Separated but by half a century the cantos are the antipodes of the novellas.

From Historia Amoris: A History of Love, Ancient and Modern by Edgar Saltus

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 George Frisbie Whicher

Amongst other versions of the story is a novelle by Giovanni Brevio, published as part of his "Rime" in 1545.

From Game and Playe of the Chesse A Verbatim Reprint of the First Edition, 1474 by William Caxton

The Italian novelle emphasized situation, but had little natural dialogue and still less characterization.

From An Introduction to Shakespeare by H. N. MacCracken

Even in Spanish or Italian literature it would not be easy to find an exact parallel; for the novelas and novelle are in general only circumstantial anecdotes.

From The Pictures; The Betrothing Novels by Connop Thirlwall


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