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novella

[noh-vel-uh] / noʊˈvɛl ə /


NOUN
short story
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WEAK


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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

It’s astonishing that Mr. Ozon is the first to make a French film of the novella, which previously yielded only two feature versions, one Italian and the other Turkish.

From The Wall Street Journal Apr. 2, 2026

Bentley's gamble on the 2011 novella by Denis Johnson appears to have paid off.

From Barron's Feb. 27, 2026

As you must know, it would be unusual for us to publish a complete novella by an unknown writer, or for that matter a well-established one.

From "Atonement" by Ian McEwan

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

Based on the “Tales of Dunk and Egg,” novellas by author George R.R.

From Los Angeles Times Jan. 16, 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

Sir Salman said the book is made up of three novellas - short stories - all of which were written in the last 12 months.

From BBC Mar. 27, 2025

According to www.nobel.se/literature/laureates/1910/press.html, Andrea Delfin, written in 1859, is part of a series of novellas, which Paul Heyse had published between 1855 and 1862 in four volumes.

From Andrea Delfin by Michael Pullen

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

Most of his novelle read like summaries of novels,—setting forth an abstract synopsis of the action rather than a concrete representation of it.

From Materials and Methods of Fiction With an Introduction by Brander Matthews by Clayton Meeker Hamilton

The Thankful Dead episode, where the hero is assisted by the soul of a person whom he has caused to be buried, is found as early as the Cento novelle antiche and Straparola, xi.

From English Fairy Tales by Joseph Jacobs

He wrote some three hundred novelle in pure Tuscan. l.

From The Browning Cyclop?dia A Guide to the Study of the Works of Robert Browning by Edward Berdoe

His novelle are nothing less than episcopal in tone and he had the grace to omit his dignity from his title-pages.

From The Palace of Pleasure, Volume 1 by William Painter




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