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novella

[noh-vel-uh] / noʊˈvɛl ə /


NOUN
short story
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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

Andy Serkis directs an animated, awkwardly contemporary adaptation of the anti-Stalinist novella featuring the voices of Seth Rogen, Glenn Close, Woody Harrelson and more.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Apr. 30, 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

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’s Dunk and Egg novellas also questions whether those who inherit rulership deserve that duty, reflecting their cravenness in shining gleam of its heroes’ virtue.

From Salon ● Feb. 23, 2026

These are novellas that have existed for 30 years.

From Los Angeles Times ● Feb. 22, 2026

Based on the “Tales of Dunk and Egg,” novellas by author George R.R.

From Los Angeles Times ● Jan. 16, 2026

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

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

I refer to the novelle or nouvelles, in which, although pastoral subjects are occasionally introduced, the treatment is entirely independent of conventional tradition.

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

It is true that The Novelist is only a true title in the older sense—that the pieces are novelle not "novels" proper.

From The English Novel by George Saintsbury

Both these incidents are the common property of Italian novelle and our own stage.

From The Works of Aphra Behn, Volume I by Montague Summers




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