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novella

[noh-vel-uh] / noʊˈvɛl ə /


NOUN
short story
Synonyms
Antonyms
WEAK


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To make it theatrical, they have also given each of the seven characters weight, artfully rebalancing the narrator’s strong voice in the novella.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 23, 2026

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

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

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

The stories and novellas of Honoré de Balzac, Guy de Maupassant, Anton Chekhov and Robert Louis Stevenson have sustained me through dark and stormy nights.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 16, 2026

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

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

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

According to www.nobel.se/literature/laureates/1910/press.html, Andrea Delfin, written in 1859, is part of a series of novellas, which Paul Heyse had published between 1855 and 1862 in four volumes.

From Andrea Delfin by Michael Pullen

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

His novelle are nothing less than episcopal in tone and he had the grace to omit his dignity from his title-pages.

From The Palace of Pleasure, Volume 1 by William Painter

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

Most of his novelle read like summaries of novels,––setting forth an abstract synopsis of the action rather than a concrete representation of it.

From A Manual of the Art of Fiction by Clayton Meeker Hamilton

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


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