2007-08-01 05:43:18 · 9 answers · asked by malinky 1 in Arts & Humanities ➔ Books & Authors
too short to be a novel, too long to be a short story.
2007-08-01 05:46:17 · answer #1 · answered by wendy_da_goodlil_witch 7 · 1⤊ 1⤋
A novelette or novella is a short novel. I like to read romance novellas because I don't have a lot of time. I have quite a few books of about 350 pages that contain four romance novellas. So each story is a little less than 100 pages and fits into time slots that I have. If you are interested in reading some, contact me with your address and I will send you a couple of these that I have already read.
2007-08-01 05:50:03 · answer #2 · answered by Bond girl 4 · 1⤊ 0⤋
Originally there were tales or stories such as works by Conrad and James, these terms changed into short stories and novels leaving a gap for shorter narratives. 'Novella' is first established in the rennaissance to describe short narratives collected by Boccaccio in the Decameron. It gradually filtered through Europes literati until Henry James began using it informally.
Functionally Mary Springer suggests that the novella is appropriate for the apologue, a narrative whose main aim is to enforce a statement or thesis, where character and plot are not as important as symbolic settings and authorial commentry (read Chopin's Awakening). Also the novella suits satire (Animal Farm).
There are no real authoritative defintions of what a novella is, but to see it as a 'medium length novel' is to close off its potentiality. The short story used to be considered just a short story, but its development as a genre gave modernism some of its best fiction. Perhaps novellas shall prove to be a genre with its own uniqueness, perhaps an appropriate post modern genre.
2007-08-02 08:58:11 · answer #3 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
I've always seen the words used interchangeably, but I personally prefer "novella," as "novelette" just sounds too precious for my taste, lol. Anyway, a novella is a story that's too long to be considered a short story, but not long enough to be a full length novel -- anything between about 20,000 to 40,000 words (those are very rough estimates, as there are no actual written "rules" about the length of the different story forms). Stephen King has written several novellas. Examples: The Mist, all four of the stories in Different Seasons, and I think "The Ballad of the Flexible Bullet" is probably long enough to creep into novella territory. Other than King, I couldn't name anyone who writes novellas, but I'm sure there are plenty of them out there.
2016-05-20 00:00:01 · answer #4 · answered by ? 3 · 0⤊ 0⤋
A novella is a short novel so you may get two or three in a normal paperback book as opposed to a short story where there may be 8+ in a paperback. Novellas are normally associated with Science Fiction/Fantasy.
2007-08-01 05:49:18 · answer #5 · answered by Del Piero 10 7 · 3⤊ 0⤋
A novella is a short novel, there is apparently a page limit that means if your novella is in excess of that, it officially becomes a novel.
2007-08-01 06:29:54 · answer #6 · answered by Efnissien 6 · 0⤊ 0⤋
a novella is more than 7,500 - less than 40,000 words - a work of fiction, but can vary with genre. A novelette is a short novel, between 7,500 words and 17,500 words.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Novelette
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Novella
2007-08-01 05:47:10 · answer #7 · answered by Anonymous · 2⤊ 0⤋
A short novel.
2007-08-01 05:48:14 · answer #8 · answered by The Count 7 · 1⤊ 1⤋
a small novel
2007-08-01 05:45:32 · answer #9 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 1⤋