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What (who) is novella - definition

WRITTEN, FICTIONAL, PROSE NARRATIVE NORMALLY LONGER THAN A SHORT STORY BUT SHORTER THAN A NOVEL
Short novel; Novellas; Novelle; History of novellas; Long Story; Novelette (literature)

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(novellas)
A novella is a short novel or a long short story.
...an autobiographical novella from French writer Marguerite Duras.
N-COUNT
novella         
[n?'v?l?]
¦ noun a short novel or long short story.
Origin
C17: from Ital., 'novel'.
Novella         
A novella is a narrative prose fiction whose length is shorter than most novels, but longer than most short stories. The English word novella derives from the Italian novella meaning a short story related to true (or apparently so) facts.

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Novella

A novella is a narrative prose fiction whose length is shorter than most novels, but longer than most short stories. The English word novella derives from the Italian novella meaning a short story related to true (or apparently so) facts.

Examples of use of novella
1. Heart of Darkness is a slim novella. 100 pages at the outside.
2. The novella –– and especially its prophetic ending –– works wonderfully, however as an allegory for Putin‘s Russia.
3. Today‘s Russia, for instance, calls to mind "Faithful Ruslan," a novella by dissident writer Georgy Vladimov.
4. This is the story of one of those September books, a 135–page comic novella entitled The Pirates!
5. In this novella, a Moscow mathematician traveling through provincial Russia suddenly begins to see everything around him as meaningless piles.