Thesaurus results for NOVELLA

novella

noun

nō-ˈve-lə

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 Can wrote her first novella, Yellow Mud Street (1987), at her sewing machine in between taking care of customers. —

René Ostberg, Encyclopedia Britannica, 7 May 2026 Kent has also written the screenplay which is adapted from a 1973 science fiction novella by American writer James Tiptree, Jr (real name Alice B Sheldon). —

Melanie Goodfellow, Deadline, 6 May 2026 The Hellraiser franchise, based on Clive Barker’s 1986 novella The Hellbound Heart, includes 11 movies, with the most recent being released in 2022. —

Carly Thomas, HollywoodReporter, 3 May 2026 The structural problems reveal themselves early, as the revolution that defined Orwell’s novella is dispatched by minute 6. —

Alison Foreman, IndieWire, 30 Apr. 2026 See All Example Sentences for novella

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There is a little more to it, as the tale of the boy from Yonkers has some of the same up-and-down flair of the Knicks and Mets during his Hall of Fame career.

— Andrew Marchand, New York Times, 29 May 2026
And hey, if this movie racks up the views, perhaps the next tale will make it to theaters, with bigger co-stars to boot.

— Mark Meszoros, Twin Cities, 29 May 2026