List of novellas
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This is an incomplete list of novellas that have gained fame and/or critical and public acclaim. The generally accepted length of a novella is 20,000 to 50,000 words, differing from a short story (1,000-7,500 words), a novelette (7,500-20,000 words) and a novel (above 50,000 words).
[edit] List of notable novellas (incomplete)
- Animal Farm (1945) George Orwell
- Anthem (1938) Ayn Rand
- The Ballad of the Sad Café (1951) Carson McCullers
- The Beast in the Jungle (1903) Henry James
- The Bicentennial Man (1976) Isaac Asimov
- Billy Budd (18??) Herman Melville
- The Boy Who Heard Music (2005/6) Pete Townshend
- Breakfast at Tiffany's (1958) Truman Capote
- Cascade Point (1983) Timothy Zahn
- A Clockwork Orange (1963) Anthony Burgess
- Daisy Miller (1878) Henry James
- The Dead (1914) James Joyce -- a short story/novella that concludes Dubliners
- The Death of Ivan Ilyich (1886) Leo Tolstoy
- Debt of Bones (2001) Terry Goodkind
- The Decameron (1353) Giovanni Boccaccio -- a collection of novellas that supplied many later authors with material for their great works.
- Different Seasons (1982) Stephen King -- a collection of novellas
- Everyman (2006) Philip Roth
- Four Past Midnight (1990) Stephen King -- a collection of novellas
- Heart of Darkness (1902) Joseph Conrad
- "The House on Mango Street" (1984) Sandra Cisneros
- Legends of the Fall (1977) Jim Harrison
- The Lifted Veil (1859) George Eliot
- Maggie: A Girl of the Streets (1893) Stephen Crane
- The Metamorphosis (1915) Franz Kafka
- Mrs Dalloway (1925) Virginia Woolf
- Of Mice and Men (1937) John Steinbeck
- The Old Man and the Sea (1952) Ernest Hemingway
- Oroonoko (1688) Aphra Behn
- The Pearl (1945) John Steinbeck
- The Prime of Miss Jean Brodie (1962) Muriel Spark
- Secret Window, Secret Garden Stephen King
- Senso (1874) Camillo Boito
- Sermons and Soda Water (1960) John O'Hara -- a collection of novellas
- Shopgirl (2001) Steve Martin
- The Strange Case of Dr Jekyll and Mr Hyde (1886) Robert Louis Stevenson
- The Turn of the Screw (1898) Henry James
- Transgressions (2005) a collection of novellas by various authors edited by Ed McBain
- The War of the Worlds (1898) H.G. Wells
- The Woman Who Waited (2006) Andrei Makine
- Young Zaphod Plays it Safe (1986) Douglas Adams
- Poison Ivy (2006) Jerzy E Henisz
[edit] Novella series
There have also been notable series of novellas published over the years, including:
- Doctor Who novelisations - between 1964 and 1994 more than 150 books were published adapting episodes of the long-running science fiction series. Many of these volumes fall into the length criteria of novellas. See List of Doctor Who novelisations. From 2002-2004, a series of original hardbound novellas based upon the series were also published, see Telos Doctor Who novellas.
- Perry Rhodan is an extremely prolific and long-running series of serialized science fiction novellas originally published in Europe, with more than 2,300 installments published as of 2006.
- The Saint, an action-adventure series of books by Leslie Charteris and other authors published between 1928 and 1983, alternated between full novels, short stories, and novellas featuring the character. The first novella collection in this series was 1930's Enter the Saint; the last was Count on the Saint, published in 1980.
- Starfleet Corps of Engineers is a popular series of Star Trek-based novellas that have been successfully published online as ebooks (and later compiled into printed omnibuses) since 2000.