as in tale
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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Formerly an editor at Simon and Schuster’s Cambridge office, Clarke is otherwise best known for her Hugo Award-winning debut novel Jonathan Strange & Mr Norrell, as well as assorted short stories and novellas, which she’s published in U.S. anthologies.
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Matt Grobar, Deadline, 20 June 2024
So Far Based on George R.R. Martin's Tales of Dunk and Egg novellas, A Knight of the Seven Kingdoms will adapt the first of the series, The Hedge Knight, into six episodes.
—Maddie Garfinkle, Peoplemag, 5 Aug. 2024
Virginia Woolf published her breathtaking novella about an Elizabethan nobleman who lives more than 300 years—and, halfway through, becomes a woman—in 1928.
—Sara Holdren, Vulture, 21 Apr. 2024
Built in 1890, the three-story mansion provided the backdrop for the 1969 film Goodbye, Columbus, starring Ali MacGraw and Richard Benjamin, an adaptation of Philip Roth’s 1959 novella of the same name.
—Demetrius Simms, Robb Report, 14 Aug. 2024
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Matt Grobar, Deadline, 20 June 2024
So Far Based on George R.R. Martin's Tales of Dunk and Egg novellas, A Knight of the Seven Kingdoms will adapt the first of the series, The Hedge Knight, into six episodes.
—Maddie Garfinkle, Peoplemag, 5 Aug. 2024
Virginia Woolf published her breathtaking novella about an Elizabethan nobleman who lives more than 300 years—and, halfway through, becomes a woman—in 1928.
—Sara Holdren, Vulture, 21 Apr. 2024
Built in 1890, the three-story mansion provided the backdrop for the 1969 film Goodbye, Columbus, starring Ali MacGraw and Richard Benjamin, an adaptation of Philip Roth’s 1959 novella of the same name.
—Demetrius Simms, Robb Report, 14 Aug. 2024
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“Novella.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/novella. Accessed 2 Oct. 2024.
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