| I've also got to copy-edit the MirrorMask script book today, write the MirrorMask novella, and do several other things I've promised people. |
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| And, as if two books in a matter of months wasn't going it just a bit, her new novella, Beasts, is being published by Orion in March. |
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| His first novella, Shopgirl, received solid reviews when it was published two years ago. |
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| This is an amazing, and amazingly depressing, novella of the rise and fall of an alien society around a shifting religious myth. |
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| He has since written short stories, a novella, novels and even a thriller set in the Pacific. |
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| The result is eight short stories and a novella, all set in the Caribbean where he was the Chicago Tribune's correspondent for seven years. |
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| Few writers move so effortlessly from the gothic tale to the psychological thriller to the epic family saga to the lyrical novella. |
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| All the events we can read from the novella are indeed trifles in comparison with glorifiable ideals or deeds. |
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| In Milan Kundera's clumsy new novella, a portentous, worn-out philosophy that borders on the ironic and absurd stands in for real thinking. |
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| By the early seventeenth century, however, prose fiction had evolved beyond the limits of the novella. |
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| In the two stories and one novella, human passions become frighteningly, titanically powerful. |
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| The novella was serialized in the London Magazine beginning in June 1912 and in the Amencan Sunday Monthly the next summer. |
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| In its metamorphosis from novella to film, it wisely maintains the convention of narration, but unwisely pushes it to the wayside. |
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| Even allowing for these excesses, the most serious problem with the novella lies in its bloodthirsty ending. |
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| We're trying to discern the difference between a short story, a vignette, a novella, and a novelette. |
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| It was a completed something, not quite a novel, but not really a novella either. |
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| Then a colleague at the U of C provided the idea of using the medieval passus as a way of building the story toward the novella at its heart. |
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| Georg Büchner wrote about him exhaustively in his novella 'Lenz', concentrating mainly on the poet's inner state of mind. |
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| I thought I'd published one novella and three short stories last year. |
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| I tried to make that clear in the author's note at the start of the novella, but it seems that I was not emphatic enough. |
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| Each novella in this book unfolds slowly, ambling through expository digressions with confidence. |
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| For the fiction writer, the prose poem may be exhilarating because it allows an escape from the exigencies of the novel, novella, and short story. |
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| A dozen short stories precede the novella, a reminder that while Updike may not be the equal of, say, Carver, in that genre he has few equals among his contemporaries. |
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| Schreiner was at first taken with Rhodes, but later wrote a novella critiquing his racism and imperialism. |
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| This was Thomas Mann's novella Death in Venice, a subject he had been considering for some time. |
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| Stories of witty cheats were an integral part of the European novella with its tradition of fabliaux. |
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| It has the slightness of a Barbara Cartland novella, but the love affair is treated with ponderous solemnity, as though it were another Gone With The Wind. |
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| Later that year, Cortazar's novella Fantomas contra los vampiros multinacionales was first published. |
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| Let us downplay the novella in casual conversation. |
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| Has also branched out into writing, and recently won critical acclaim for the movie Shopgirl, which he adapted from his own novella. |
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| Here both the collection of stories and the evolution of the novella portante seem to reach a pivotal point. |
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| By the end the whizzkid is scrounging tips as a supermarket janitor, a victim either of self-doubt or of fear about where his strange powers might lead. The character and conceit might together have made a good novella. |
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| The surprise is that the 127-page novella is far from terrible and creepy. |
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| In the novella, however, Cramer proves as deluded a romantic as any hero in one of Scott's novels. |
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| Achebe's critics argue that he fails to distinguish Marlow's view from Conrad's, which results in very clumsy interpretations of the novella. |
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| Steinbeck's Of Mice and Men is another important novella about a journey during the Great Depression. |
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| Margaret Atwood's 2005 novella The Penelopiad is an ironic rewriting of The Odyssey from Penelope's perspective. |
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| Hemingway received a mixed reaction to the novella that was sharply critical of other writers. |
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| This is a poignant novella about how two Vietnamese refugees – a culture-shocked grandfather and his baby granddaughter – struggled to fit into the unfamiliar world of 80s France. |
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| His 1843 novella, A Christmas Carol, remains popular and continues to inspire adaptations in every artistic genre. |
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| The novel is today the longest genre of narrative prose fiction, followed by the novella. |
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| I was so moved by the story I lost sight of the fact that I was reading Tim Moynihan's novella, not his memoirs. |
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| The novella was the most widespread genre during the French Renaissance. |
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| But is Barnes's book a novella or a short novel? |
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| For sheer repellence, its libretto, adapted by the composer from Dostoyevsky's like-named novella of social and moral corruption, has few operatic peers. |
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| Doyle was also inspired by his Spiritualist beliefs to write a novella on the subject, The Land of Mist, featuring the character Professor Challenger. |
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| The novella is regarded as a hybrid of the two more prominent forms of fiction, but novellas succeed when they are aware of their own duties and parameters. |
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| Michan's Church in Dublin, and the novella Carmilla by Sheridan Le Fanu. |
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| Adapted by Martin from his novella of the same name, Shopgirl is a contemporary romantic comedy that flirts with, and defies the conventions of, the genre. |
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| Georges Perec's 1972 novella Les revenentes complemented his earlier lipogrammatic work by being a univocalic piece in which the letter e is the only vowel used. |
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| Theodor Storm also mentions Rungholt in his novella Eine Halligfahrt. |
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| In his letters, Hemingway shows a passionate affection for his novella. |
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