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novella
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Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
Word definitions in Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
noun EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS ▪ I found it boring, self-conscious and a good deal sketchier than the Balzac novella on which it's based. ▪ Martha had just singled out a passage in Kara's novella that she said she found particularly meaningful. ▪ Saul Bellow's ...
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A novella is a written, fictional, prose narrative longer than a novelette but shorter than a novel. Novella may also refer to: Novella (album) , a 1977 album by Renaissance Novella - Christian rock band formed by Jonathan Paganno that released debut album ...
Usage examples of novella.
It was so important that for the first and last time Dostoyevsky made a formal dichotomy between the ideological briefing, which even contains dialogue, and the novella which illustrates it.
Mary Higgins Clark is the author of twent-one novels of suspence, three collections of short stories, and with her daughter, Carol Higgins Clark, co-author of two Christmas novellas.
It was not till the Spaniards borrowed the form of the novella and transplanted it to their racier soil that it began to bear character, and to fruit in the richness of their picaresque fiction.
Anyhow, when I had completed the Perseid novella, my research after further classical examples of the aforementioned themes led me to the minor mythic hero Bellerophon of Corinth.
While the novella also delves into the lives of some marginal, twenty-something characters in '90s Toronto, the writing isn't quite as assured as the longer novel and the plot remains rather aimless, jumping from scene to scene as we follow a few days in the life of a copyshop clerk named Mark.
His first novella, AMERICAN GRAVEYARDS, is now available as a Crimewave Special from the publishers of Crimewave magazine.
Using, like Scheherazade herself, for entirely present ends, materials received from narrative antiquity and methods older than the alphabet, in the time since Sherry's defloration he had set down two-thirds of a projected series of three novellas, longish tales which would take their sense from one another in several of the ways he and Sherry had discussed, and, if they were successful (here he smiled at me), manage to be seriously, even passionately, about some things as well.
Michelangelo let him paint a few decorative rams' heads and doorframes, flat walls or floor surfaces that Bugiardini had done at Santa Maria Novella.
When he isn’t immersed in the Starfleet Corps of Engineers, he writes other Star Trek fiction, ranging from the novels Diplomatic Implausibility and Demons of Air and Darkness to the comic book Perchance to Dream to the award-winning novella “Horn and Ivory” to the cross-series duology The Brave & the Bold.
Then, of course, to be sure I had the saga all correct in my head, I reread all three and the two novellas.
It brings together four San Cibola novelets and novellas for an amusing, and at times thoughtful, exploration of the interaction between humans and the "Neighbors,' the Tick Tock Men's term for mythical beings.
His other Star Trek work ranges from the Star Trek The Next Generation novel Diplomatic Implausibility to the Star Trek Deep Space Nine novel Demons of Air and Darkness to the TNG comic book Perchance to Dream to the DS9 novella Horn and Ivory.
But even decathletes have their best events, and in Kate Wilhelm's case, it sometimes seems she was born to write novellas.
Agnes had gone, though it was decidedly no part of her duty as one of the highest paid employes of the Novella.
Boq saw nothing amiss: A couple of clerks reading the racing forms, some genteel ladies with their lemonades and novellas, a tiktok creature buying coffee beans by the pound, a parody of an old professor figuring out some theorem by arranging and rearranging some sugar cubes along the edge of his butter knife.