novella
Sign in to saveA novella is a book of narrative prose fiction whose length is shorter than most novels, but longer than most novelettes and short stories. The English word "novella" derives from the Italian meaning a short story related to true (or apparently so) facts.
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A novella is a work of fiction that's longer than a short story but shorter than a full novel, offering a middle ground for storytellers and readers. The term comes from Italian and originally referred to brief stories based on real or seemingly real events, though modern novellas can be entirely fictional.
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- Definition
- History
- Characteristics
- Versus novel
- <span class="anchor" id="Novelette"></span> Versus novelette
- Notable examples
- Word counts
- See also
- References
- Further reading
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A novella is a book of narrative prose fiction whose length is shorter than most novels, but longer than most novelettes and short stories. The English word "novella" derives from the Italian meaning a short story related to true (or apparently so) facts.
==Definition== The Italian term is a feminine of novello, which means "new", similarly to the English word news. Merriam-Webster defines a novella as "a work of fiction intermediate in length and complexity between a short story and a novel". Disagreement exists regarding the number of pages or words necessary for a story to be considered a novella, a short story, or a novel. The Science Fiction and Fantasy Writers Association defines a novella's word count to be between 17,500 and 40,000 words; at 250 words per page, this equates to 70 to 160 pages. See below for definitions used by other organisations.