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novella

[noh-vel-uh] / noʊˈvɛl ə /


NOUN
short story
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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

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

At first, Clint Bentley wasn’t sure if Adolpho Veloso would relate to “Train Dreams,” an adaptation of Denis Johnson’s 2011 novella.

From Los Angeles Times Feb. 16, 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

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

From Salon Feb. 23, 2026

“The Body” was published in 1982 in “Different Seasons,” a collection of four King novellas.

From The Wall Street Journal Feb. 2, 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

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 class of Italian literature with which Shakespeare shows most acquaintance is that of the novelle, though there is no proof that he could read the language.

From The Facts About Shakespeare by William Allan Nielson

I'll warrant it is not Mr. Butter's Spellings nor Murray the Grammarian, but some trash of a novelle.

From Gilian The Dreamer His Fancy, His Love and Adventure by Neil Munro

The flood of Italian novelle introduced into England by Painter and his school, imported a new condition into the problem.

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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