novella

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

In Birgitta Trotzig’s novella, a young woman’s toughness in the face of poverty and heartbreak sets her apart from her village peers.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Apr. 3, 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

Bentley's gamble on the 2011 novella by Denis Johnson appears to have paid off.

From Barron's ● Feb. 27, 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

These three novellas were written in the 1920s, after the fall of the empire, and in their baroque translation by John Batki they cast back upon bygone times with wistfulness, charm and winking humor.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Apr. 8, 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

Each of the novellas are just the perfect length for a single afternoon.

From Los Angeles Times ● May 27, 2025

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 Pullen, Michael

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

He wrote some three hundred novelle in pure Tuscan. l.

From The Browning Cyclop?dia A Guide to the Study of the Works of Robert Browning by Berdoe, Edward

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 Greg, Walter W.

The advance was due partly, no doubt, to a perception of the heroic absurdities of French fiction, but also to the study of Italian novelle and the "Exemplary Novels" of Cervantes.

From The Life and Romances of Mrs. Eliza Haywood by Whicher, George Frisbie

They drew their material from all kinds of narrative sources, Italian novelle, current pamphlets, Latin historians, or English chronicles; and, whether historical or fictitious, were usually known as Histories, i.e., stories.

From The Facts About Shakespeare by Nielson, William Allan