novella

“Ship Fever,” the title novella in Andrea Barrett’s collection of short stories, is the tale of a young doctor who, stung by the derision of the woman he loves, offers his services at the station.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Aug. 24, 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

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

Inspired by a novella by Soviet physicist Georgy Demidov, who chronicled his own harrowing experiences in the gulag from the late 1930s until the early 1950s, “Two Prosecutors” unfolds with ominous efficiency.

From Los Angeles Times ● Mar. 26, 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

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

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 moment in question could be a big deal for some fans of Martin’s novellas.

From Los Angeles Times ● Feb. 22, 2026

Martin novellas set in the same world as his “A Song of Ice and Fire” series.

From Los Angeles Times ● Feb. 22, 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

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

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

From The Palace of Pleasure, Volume 1 by William Painter

Shakespeare worked over the Italian novelle of Boccaccio, weaving them into his great English dramas, and nobody censured him.

From Paul and the Printing Press by A. O. (Arthur O.) Scott

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