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Novella

A novella is a piece of short prose fiction, derived from the Italian word for new.

In English, a novella consists of stories mid-way—in terms of length and complexity—between a short story and a novel, focusing on a single chain of events with a surprising turning point. Conrad's Heart of Darkness (1902) is a fine example. Its earliest prodigy can be linked to Giovanni Boccaccio (1313-1375) author of Decameron. Decameron is a collection of novellas, a series of one hundred tales told by ten individuals fleeing the plague.

The Hugo and Nebula awards for science fiction define the novella as "A...story of between seventeen thousand five hundred (17,500) and forty thousand (40,000) words."

See also: literature

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Novella is a commune of the Haute-Corse département in France, on the island of Corsica.

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