Definitions
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.
- noun A short novel.
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun A short novel.
- noun In music, an instrumental piece of a free and romantic character, in which many themes are treated with more or less capricious variety; a romance or ballade. The term was first used by Schumann.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- noun A short novel; a novella.
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.
- noun A short
novel .
from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
- noun a short novel
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Examples
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Only one work, the title novelette “The Martian Way,” pertains to Mars.
The Martian Way and Other Stories, a 1955 collection by Isaac Asimov Paul 2010
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In addition to the title novelette, The Great Bazaar and Other Stories contains a number of scenes not included in The Painted Man published in the US as The Warded Man as well as a glossary and a grimoire, making it an essential guide to one of the most exciting epic fantasy series currently being published.
Mihir’s Anticipated 2010 Books Liviu 2010
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This novelette is a tour de force of voice, music, and storytelling.
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I think the novelette is attempting to be lingering and elegaic in feel.
turn me to stone. do anything you want to me. sartorias 2007
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The Djinn's Wife: this Hugo-winning novelette is a heartbreaking account of a love affair between a minor celebrity and a weakly godlike artificial intelligence.
Boing Boing 2009
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So, yeah, a 10k novelette is around 40 hours of work, at least.
How cool are you?: Writing speeds. wendigomountain 2009
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Now a novelette is defined by SFWA as a work of short fiction between 7,500 and 17,499 words.
Novelettes wanted! marshallpayne1 2009
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"The Rift" of Paul J. McAuley's novelette is the subject of a mountain climbing expedition in the Amazon basin.
REVIEW: Infinity Plus - The Anthology edited by Keith Brooke and Nick Gevers 2007
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And now I have to go start a short story that just finally gave me its first line*, and start two three articles, and work on a novel revision, and wonder what the heck the last scene of this other novelette is so I can finish the bloody thing, because it's been sitting on my desk partially written for MONTHS now.
There's a guy works down the chip shop swears he's Elvish-- fjm 2007
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BRIEF SYNOPSIS: Anthology of nine novellas and 1 novelette from the year 2004.
REVIEW: Best Short Novels: 2005 edited by Jonathan Strahan 2006
Prolagus commented on the word novelette
Song quotation on enamour.
November 12, 2008