How to Use novella in a Sentence

novella

noun
Definition of novellanext
Synonyms for novellanext
  • The drama is based Stephen King's 1982 novella The Body.
    — Jessica Wang, EW.com, 4 June 2023
  • The first season will adapt the first novella, 1998's The Hedge Knight, and consist of six episodes.
    — Sydney Bucksbaum, EW.com, 16 May 2024
  • Fans have long hoped for an adaptation of the Tales of Dunk and Egg series of novellas.
    — Rebecca Alter, Vulture, 5 Apr. 2024
  • Inspired by the iconic horror novella of the same name.
    — Matt Donnelly, Variety, 29 Oct. 2021
  • The story won the Nebula Award that year for best novella.
    — Borys Kit, The Hollywood Reporter, 14 June 2024
  • Hatcher based the play on a 1905 novella of the same name by Swedish writer Hjalmar Söderberg.
    — San Diego Union-Tribune, 26 July 2021
  • In James’ novella, two children and Dani, their governess, head to a country house.
    — Lydia Wang, refinery29.com, 25 Aug. 2020
  • Episodes of more than 20 TV shows have been inspired by the novella, and four opera and two ballet versions of the story exist.
    — Laura Zornosa, Time, 18 Nov. 2022
  • The Dunk and Egg novellas that this new spinoff is based on are some of my favorite bits in the whole Westerosi catalogue.
    — Erik Kain, Forbes, 24 Feb. 2024
  • In the novella, the rest of the groom’s life, from early adulthood to late middle age, is relayed in a few heartrendingly swift pages.
    — Giles Harvey, The New York Review of Books, 19 Oct. 2022
  • Immanuel Kant walked its streets in the eighteenth century; Thomas Mann wrote a novella there in 1929.
    — Andrei Kolesnikov, Foreign Affairs, 9 Sep. 2022
  • This spooky novella finds Lord John Grey journeying across the sea to Jamaica, to put a stop to a slave rebellion.
    — Emma Dibdin, Town & Country, 11 Mar. 2022
  • For a short read that still packs a punch, check out The Lies of Ajungo, a debut novella about a boy's quest to bring water to his city and save his mother.
    — Men's Health, 15 Feb. 2023
  • This horror novella is one of the best known in the genre, plus a staple of Gothic literature.
    — Milan Polk, Men's Health, 24 Oct. 2022
  • This is a novella set in 1985 in a fictional village in Ireland.
    — Teresa M. Hanafin, BostonGlobe.com, 4 June 2023
  • The series was based on Leonard’s novella, Fire in the Hole, with Leonard consulting with the producers until his death in 2013.
    — James Hibberd, The Hollywood Reporter, 14 Jan. 2022
  • May Destroy You, this dark novella by Oyinkan Braithwaite tells the story of two sisters.
    — Timothy Harrison, Vogue, 26 Feb. 2022
  • One of the unknowns of that novella is the reason the boy, Miles, has been expelled from school—that the boy could be bad is unfathomable to the governess because of his charm.
    — Joanna Biggs, Harper's Magazine, 10 Jan. 2024
  • The title is a deliberate homage to that of an early Jane Austen novella.
    — Margalit Fox, New York Times, 3 Dec. 2020
  • In 2000, his novella Riding the Bullet was released online as the world’s first mass-market e-book.
    — Andy Greene, Rolling Stone, 9 Sep. 2021
  • The collection of stories and title novella has never gone out of print.
    — Lisa Alvarez, Los Angeles Times, 2 July 2021
  • This one was where Dostoyevsky lost all his money, a calamity that inspired his dark novella The Gambler.
    — William Cook, Condé Nast Traveler, 27 Oct. 2022
  • The novella follows a young boy from a tiny, faraway planet who stops by Earth while traveling across the universe.
    — Christopher Parker, Smithsonian Magazine, 29 Sep. 2023
  • Golightly in Blake Edwards’ 1961 rom-com based on the Truman Capote novella.
    — Los Angeles Times, 5 Nov. 2021
  • Tellkamp is on friendly terms with Rauch, and has subsequently published a novella based on him and the Leipzig art scene.
    — Thomas Meaney, The New Yorker, 27 Sep. 2021
  • The novella is Spencer’s lightest, most accessible work and the one for which she’s best remembered.
    — Michael Lapointe, The New Yorker, 20 May 2021
  • From the eponymous novella in the collection Cowboy Graves, which will be published this month by Penguin Press.
    — Yasmine Seale, Harper’s Magazine , 7 Dec. 2021
  • Passing is based on Nella Larsen’s 1929 novella of the same name and follows two childhood friends and their racial identities.
    — Melanie Curry, ELLE, 7 May 2022
  • And he had been inspired by Animal Farm, Orwell’s novella of 1945.
    — Jay Nordlinger, National Review, 25 May 2023
  • LaValle sets the novella in 1920's Harlem and focuses on a Black hustler who meets a reclusive millionaire who enlists him in a dark scheme.
    — Milan Polk, Men's Health, 24 Oct. 2022

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