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a work with imaginary characters and events that is shorter and usually less complex than a novel pressed for time, many English teachers have their students read the one novella among the novelist's works

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Recent Examples of novella The writer's new novella, available only in audio, is out now through Spotify Audiobooks Comments Like so many of us this year, romance novelist Ali Hazelwood couldn’t get enough of Luca Guadagnino’s tennis movie Challengers. Carly Tagen-Dye, People.com, 1 Oct. 2024 Hyde is set in London, in a fictional world where the madman in Robert Louis Stevenson's influential Gothic horror novella Strange Case of Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde did not die, Negron said. David Bloom, Forbes, 29 Sep. 2024 Zweig was a versatile writer, producing biographies, essays, plays, poems, short stories, novellas — an opera libretto for Richard Strauss (Die schweigsame Frau). Jay Nordlinger, National Review, 30 Sep. 2024 In a letter to the judge, Ellison’s mother, professor Sara Fisher Ellison, wrote that Ellison has completed a romantic novella and is already at work on a follow-up. Jane Thier, Fortune, 24 Sep. 2024 See all Example Sentences for novella 

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“Novella.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/novella. Accessed 21 Nov. 2024.

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