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novella

[noh-vel-uh] / noʊˈvɛl ə /


NOUN
short story
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Dylan Southern directs from a script based on Max Porter’s novella.

From The Wall Street Journal

In his novella “The Turn of the Screw,” the connection between the supernatural and the psychological is allowed to suggestively simmer.

From Los Angeles Times

Still, I missed the truly misanthropic lead of King’s novella, a sour bigot radicalized to see himself not just as a cog in a machine but as a spoke in a revolution.

From Los Angeles Times

The director said he and Holloway have a shared attraction to tension that builds slowly and methodically, like in a turn-of-the-century Gothic horror novella — such as Arthur Machen’s “The Great God Pan.”

From Los Angeles Times

Weighing in at over 70 pages, “Late” constitutes more a novella than a story, as does “The Musician of Kahani” and the equally substantial “Oklahoma.”

From Los Angeles Times