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novella

[noh-vel-uh] / noʊˈvɛl ə /


NOUN
short story
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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

Greta Lee and Edmund Donovan star alongside the actor in this adaptation of Arthur Schnitzler’s novella about a group of intellectuals fascinated with a once-celebrated writer who now works at a post office.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Aug. 6, 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

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

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

Another spin-off, A Knight of the Seven Kingdoms, adapted from a series of novellas written by Martin, launched last month.

From BBC ● Feb. 18, 2026

Martin’s “Tales of Dunk and Egg” series of novellas, saw the hopeful hedge knight make some progress toward achieving his dreams.

From Los Angeles Times ● Jan. 25, 2026

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 stories of the crime and cruelty of the day before that are told each morning are about of the average length of these novelle as written by the Italian novelists of the Renaissance.

From The Century of Columbus by James J. Walsh

She intended to give a Decameron of one hundred stories—the number comes from the Cento novelle antichi, before Boccaccio—but only got so far as the second novel of the eighth day.

From The Palace of Pleasure, Volume 1 by William Painter

Nearly all the novelle of the Fourth Day, for example, deal with tragic topics.

From The Palace of Pleasure, Volume 1 by William Painter

He left the administration of his diocese to the Bishop of Grasse, and employed himself, at the advanced age of seventy, in the completion of his novelle.

From The New Gresham Encyclopedia. Vol. 1 Part 3 Atrebates to Bedlis by Various




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