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A work of prose fiction, longer than a novella.
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A fable; a short tale, especially one of many making up a larger work.
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A novelty; something new.
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A new legal constitution in ancient Rome.
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A short novel or long short story.
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Examples of novella in a Sentence
The Historia novella is annalistic in form.
Hardy edited the Gesta regum and Historia novella for the English Historical Society in 1840, and put the criticism of the manuscripts on a sound basis.
A Vita Sancti Patricii and Miracula Sancti Benigni are mentioned in the prologue to the book on Glastonbury; a metrical life of St iElfgyfu is quoted in the Gesta pontificum; Chronica tribus libellis are mentioned in the prologue to the Historia novella, and a fragment of them is apparently preserved in the Brit.
In 1267 he entered the Dominican house of Santa Maria Novella in Florence, and in 1272 that of St Catherine in Pisa.
The Badia, Santo Spirito, Santa Maria Novella, are a few among the many famous and beautiful churches of Florence.
Sacerdotal robes were thrown over the victims, and then roughly stripped off by two Dominicans, the bishop of Vasona and the prior of Sta Maria Novella.
The Courage Consort is the new novella from the acclaimed and best selling author of The Crimson Petal and The White.
The prize, for best novella, follows Gaiman's win last year in the best novel category for American Gods.
The Eternal Champion is the original novella which was expanded to novel length, its most recent publication was in The Time Center Times.
Charles Dickens, having been poor as a youth and not even able to enjoy a warm feast, seized upon both this nostalgia and his own concerns for the state of the poor and wrote his classic novella A Christmas Carol.
Published in 1985, an expanded version of a novella of the same name published in Analog magazine in 1977, Ender's Game won both the Hugo and the Nebula awards for best novel.
On a commission from Rucellai he designed the principal facade of the church of Santa Maria Novella in Florence, as well as the family palace in the Via della Scala, now known as the Palazzo Strozzi.
Maria Novella, a "Coronation of the Virgin," with a predella in three stctions, now in the Uffizi, - this again is one of his masterpieces.
About this date he undertook to write the Historia novella, giving an account of events since 1125.
The place assigned to Leonardo for the preparation of his cartoon was the Sala del Papa at Santa Maria Novella.
The rising agitation on the subject, fomented for their own purposes by the rabid Aristotelians of the schools, was heightened rather than allayed by these manifestoes, and on the fourth Sunday of the following Advent found a voice in the pulpit of Santa Maria Novella.
Actually, the novella - the short novel - which is a very congenial word length.
Saturday the 2nd day of March I had from Santa Maria Novella 5 gold ducats, leaving 450.
It is difficult to think of a great novella which has not been written by a great novelist.
March will see the final Doctor Who novella by horror novelist Simon Clark.
If you don't fancy writing a novella, you could write a poem instead.
Weeks 9 and 10 are given to in-depth analysis of a set novella in the context of the author's work.
Synopsis The first ever collection of Iain Banks's short fiction, this volume includes the acclaimed novella, The State of the Art.
Hard to describe, is it a short novella?
My first novella was published by club 199 for a one-off payment.