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

As you must know, it would be unusual for us to publish a complete novella by an unknown writer, or for that matter a well-established one.

From "Atonement" by Ian McEwan

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

From Los Angeles Times ● Feb. 22, 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

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

Educated people read, instead, Italian novelle, or short tales, which were usually gathered into some collection of a hundred or so.

From An Introduction to Shakespeare by H. N. MacCracken

The more suggestive parallel of the novelle has to be ruled out on the score of form, and is further differentiated by the notable lack in them of romantic spirit.

From Pastoral Poetry and Pastoral Drama A Literary Inquiry, with Special Reference to the Pre-Restoration Stage in England by Walter W. Greg

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

Other writers besides Sacchetti produced songs of the sort, but in all alike the strictly pastoral element was accidental, and merged insensibly into the more delicately romantic of the novelle themes.

From Pastoral Poetry and Pastoral Drama A Literary Inquiry, with Special Reference to the Pre-Restoration Stage in England by Walter W. Greg