novella
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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
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
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
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The novellas are composed of nested stories inspired by Scheherazade’s tales in “One Thousand and One Nights.”
From The Wall Street Journal ● Apr. 8, 2026
These are novellas that have existed for 30 years.
From Los Angeles Times ● Feb. 22, 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
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
NM: 2 rev. novellas with illus. © 30Mar50; A42861.
From U.S. Copyright Renewals, 1977 July - December by Library of Congress. Copyright Office
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
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The exaggerated generosity of Constantino might be paralleled from hundreds of novelle.
From Renaissance in Italy: Italian Literature Part 1 (of 2) by John Addington Symonds
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
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
Nearly all the novelle of the Fourth Day, for example, deal with tragic topics.
From The Palace of Pleasure, Volume 1 by William Painter
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