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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Crime 101 is directed by Bart Layton, and adapted from a novella by Don Winslow.
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Caroline Frost, Deadline, 6 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
The film was adapted from Annie Proulx’s novella by Larry McMurtry and Diana Ossana.
—Samantha Bergeson, IndieWire, 4 Apr. 2025
The titular novella follows restless loggers who plan a wintertime dance, on the condition that some of them attend as women.
—Clare Mulroy, USA Today, 28 Mar. 2025
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Caroline Frost, Deadline, 6 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
The film was adapted from Annie Proulx’s novella by Larry McMurtry and Diana Ossana.
—Samantha Bergeson, IndieWire, 4 Apr. 2025
The titular novella follows restless loggers who plan a wintertime dance, on the condition that some of them attend as women.
—Clare Mulroy, USA Today, 28 Mar. 2025
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Recent Examples of Synonyms for novella
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But the most sobering cautionary tale comes from 1894, when a lighthouse keeper’s pet cat named Tibbles was introduced to Stephens Island in New Zealand.—
Scott Travers,
Forbes.com,
26 Apr. 2025
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Comments On Swift Horses is rife with drama — a tale of a love triangle between a young woman, Muriel (Daisy Edgar-Jones), her Korean War veteran husband Lee (Will Poulter), and his iconoclastic brother Julius (Jacob Elordi).—
Maureen Lee Lenker,
EW.com,
25 Apr. 2025
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In this story: hair, Virginie Moreira; makeup, Ammy Drammeh; grooming, Yuko Fredriksson; braiding, Lorraine Dublin, Angela Torio Rivera; manicurist, Adam Slee; tailor, Judith Grant.—
Malick Bodian,
Vogue,
24 Apr. 2025
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Top stories About the writer Gabe Whisnant is a Breaking News Editor at Newsweek based in North Carolina.—
Gabe Whisnant,
MSNBC Newsweek,
24 Apr. 2025
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“Novella.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/novella. Accessed 3 May. 2025.
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