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 Like the Stephen King novella that inspired it, director Mike Flanagan's latest film is told in three acts, presented in reverse chronological order. Ashley Boucher, EW.com, 6 June 2025 The film is adapted from a novella written by Stephen King. Virginia Chamlee, People.com, 13 June 2025 The first novella couldn’t be stretched quite that far, so the story required some expansion. Gideon Lewis-Kraus, New Yorker, 13 June 2025 If anything, Flanagan revels in the novella’s genre-bending dexterity, magnifying the eeriness of its opening scenes before deepening the homespun warmth of its subsequent chapters. Shirley Li, The Atlantic, 12 June 2025 See All Example Sentences for novella
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  • Where Bailey lands is probably going to tell the tale of his career.
    Mike Vorkunov, New York Times, 26 June 2025
  • The page lists half a dozen directorial projects Ford is attached to, including ferry disaster tragedy Wahine out of New Zealand, fantasy tale The King of Light – The Order of the Dark Gods, and comedy Food Fight.
    Melanie Goodfellow, Deadline, 24 June 2025
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    Nicholas Rice, People.com, 5 July 2025
  • Douglas also shared some stories from Cuckoo’s Nest, including ones about Nicholson.
    Georg Szalai, HollywoodReporter, 5 July 2025

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“Novella.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/novella. Accessed 8 Jul. 2025.

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