as in tale
a work with imaginary characters and events that is shorter and usually less complex than a novel pressed for time, many English teachers have their students read the one novella among the novelist's works

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Recent Examples of novella The Slammed series in order: Slammed (2012) Point of Retreat (2012) This Girl (2013) The Hopeless series Like Slammed, Hoover’s Hopeless series — consisting of three novels and two novellas — was originally self-published. Maggie Fremont, EW.com, 10 May 2025 The Life of Chuck will serve as the inaugural festival’s closing night feature on June 7, which is based on Stephen King’s 2020 novella. Michael Saponara, Billboard, 23 Apr. 2025 In their new thriller Crime 101, an adaptation of the Don Winslow novella of the same name, Berry plays a weary insurance broker who gets involved in a multimillion-dollar heist led by a master jewel thief named Davis, portrayed by Hemsworth. Erin Clack, People.com, 5 Apr. 2025 Subsequent seasons of Off Campus, the show, will presumably follow the other books, The Mistake, The Score, The Goal and The Legacy (a novella compiling stories from all of the couples). Jordana Comiter, People.com, 7 May 2025 See All Example Sentences for novella
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  • The story splits its time between young Wash's misadventures and the older, adult Wash's tale of first love with a biracial woman, Tanna (Iola Evans), and a brush with danger in the form of bounty hunter, Willard (Billy Boyd).
    Maureen Lee Lenker, EW.com, 20 May 2025
  • While the sight of Lamia carrying around the proud cockerel has the makings of an image straight out of a children’s tale, nothing in the little girl’s life has storybook qualities.
    Tomris Laffly, Variety, 19 May 2025
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    Saman Shafiq, USA Today, 18 May 2025

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“Novella.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/novella. Accessed 28 May. 2025.

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