novella
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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
The first English-language edition of Trotzig’s 1964 novella “Queen”—one of the author’s greatest achievements—may help to fill that gap.
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
“Breakfast at Tiffany’s” is adapted from Truman Capote’s novella by the same name.
From Los Angeles Times ● Feb. 23, 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 who inherit rulership deserve that duty, reflecting their cravenness in shining gleam of its heroes’ virtue.
From Salon ● Feb. 23, 2026
The moment in question could be a big deal for some fans of Martin’s novellas.
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
Even in Spanish or Italian literature it would not be easy to find an exact parallel; for the novelas and novelle are in general only circumstantial anecdotes.
From The Pictures; The Betrothing Novels by Connop Thirlwall
In early Italian literature besides Boccaccio, the Cento novelle antiche abound in Oriental elements.
From Italian Popular Tales by Thomas Frederick Crane
Boccaccio is pretty xxvii evenly divided between the two, and the remainder is made up of classic tales and anecdotes and a few novelle of Ser Giovanni and Straparola.
From The Palace of Pleasure, Volume 1 by William Painter
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 Edward Berdoe
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