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单词 novella
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novellan.

Brit. /nə(ʊ)ˈvɛlə/, U.S. /noʊˈvɛlə/
Origin: A borrowing from Italian. Etymon: Italian novella.
Etymology: < Italian novella (see novel n.).
Originally: a short fictitious narrative. Now (usually): a short novel, a long short story.
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society > leisure > the arts > literature > prose > narrative or story > other fictional narrative > [noun] > novelette or short story
novelc1500
novella1677
nouvelle1680
novelette1780
novelet1815
long short story1877
short story1877
conte1891
short1912
long short1929
shorty1934
1677 A. Behn Rover Postscript If the Play of the Novella were as well worth remembring as Thomaso, they might..have as well said, I took it from thence.
1827 N. Amer. Rev. 25 186 The brief Novella has ever been a prodigious favorite with the nation..since the days of Boccaccio.
1833 N. Amer. Rev. 36 408 If the commentator had studied the whole Novella, and compared it with other passages, even his moderate knowledge of the Civil Law would have enabled him to see the true meaning of the passage he quotes.
1880 T. C. Irwin (title) The Student of Padua. A novella in verse.
1902 W. D. Howells Lit. & Life 116 Few modern fictions of the novel's dimensions..have the beauty of form many a novella embodies.
1959 John o' London's Weekly 17 Dec. 350/1 H. E. Bates has made the novella, which is more generally referred to as the ‘long-short story’ a form of fiction which is very much his own.
1992 Rev. Eng. Stud. 43 236 In the first of the novella's three parts Marlow gives a prolepsis of the climax.
This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, December 2003; most recently modified version published online March 2022).
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