novella
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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
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
Bentley's gamble on the 2011 novella by Denis Johnson appears to have paid off.
From Barron's ● Feb. 27, 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
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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
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 Body” was published in 1982 in “Different Seasons,” a collection of four King novellas.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Feb. 2, 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
Separated but by half a century the cantos are the antipodes of the novellas.
From Historia Amoris: A History of Love, Ancient and Modern by Edgar Saltus
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
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The stories of the crime and cruelty of the day before that are told each morning are about of the average length of these novelle as written by the Italian novelists of the Renaissance.
From The Century of Columbus by James J. Walsh
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
Very few of the novelle selected by Painter for translation depend for their attraction on mere naughtiness.
From The Palace of Pleasure, Volume 1 by William Painter
The class of Italian literature with which Shakespeare shows most acquaintance is that of the novelle, though there is no proof that he could read the language.
From The Facts About Shakespeare by William Allan Nielson
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