novella
noun, plural no·vel·las, no·vel·le [noh-vel-ee, -vel-ey] /noʊˈvɛl i, -ˈvɛl eɪ/.
Origin of novella
Related Words for novella
story, yarn, fiction, tale, narrative, prose, paperback, novella, romance, novelette, potboiler, cliff-hanger, accountExamples from the Web for novella
Contemporary Examples of novella
And in some ways [the novella at the end of the collection] “Jack and the Mad Dog” just sort of set me free.
I see my novella as being part of that—as part of the social discourse.
The Surprisingly Good Flight 370 Novel: Author Scott Maka Defends His Controversial BookTim Teeman
June 14, 2014
I tried to make that clear in the author's note at the start of the novella, but it seems that I was not emphatic enough.
The Surprisingly Good Flight 370 Novel: Author Scott Maka Defends His Controversial BookTim Teeman
June 14, 2014
The surprise is that the 127-page novella is far from terrible and creepy.
The Surprisingly Good Flight 370 Novel: Author Scott Maka Defends His Controversial BookTim Teeman
June 14, 2014
Three years later, I returned to Beijing and wrote my first novella—Stick Out Your Tongue, inspired by my travels through Tibet.
Historical Examples of novella
Perhaps he was going to perish here, without seeing the Novella again.
Very WomanRemy de Gourmont
The Novella stooped towards the prisoner and touched his face with her lips.
Very WomanRemy de Gourmont
In both cases the difference of the novella is in the motive, or the origination.
Literature and LifeWilliam Dean Howells
The novelette can have almost as perfect form as the novella.
Literature and LifeWilliam Dean Howells
In other words the novella was actually (though still in miniature) a novel in nature as well as in name.
The English NovelGeorge Saintsbury