Thesaurus results for NOVELLA

novella

noun

nō-ˈve-lə

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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Recent Examples on the Web Based on a novella from Stephen King, the film unspools across three chapters in the life of an ordinary man. —

Matt Donnelly, Variety, 7 Sep. 2024 More recent commentators have been more favorable and sometimes even prefer the movie to Twain's novella. —

arkansasonline.com, 3 Aug. 2024 In 2007, a single handwritten page from Napoleon’s unpublished novella sold for $35,400. —

Sarah Kuta, Smithsonian Magazine, 9 July 2024 Florian Frerichs’ new adaptation of Arthur Schnitzler’s famed erotic novella — the work that inspired Stanley Kubrick‘s Eyes Wide Shut — promises to be a much more explicit version of the story. —

Scott Roxborough, The Hollywood Reporter, 10 Sep. 2024 See all Example Sentences for novella

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