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Novella

Principally, by Giovanni Boccaccio (1313–1375), author of The Decameron (1353)—one hundred novelle told by ten people, seven women and three men, fleeing the Black Death by escaping from Florence to the Fiesole hills, in 1348; and by the French Queen, Marguerite de Navarre (1492–1549), aka Marguerite de Valois, et. alii., author of Heptaméron (1559)—seventy-two original French tales (modeled after the structure of The Decameron).

Sweets and Other Stories

He began writing everything down, and with Linna's editorial help, he was able to transform his rehabilitation process into the novelette, short story and song-poems comprising Sweets.


Alienist

It is used in Joseph Conrad's novella Heart of Darkness to describe the doctor in the Company headquarters in Belgium.

Anton Diabelli

A sonatina of Diabelli's, presumably Sonatina in F major, Op. 168, No. 1 (I: Moderato cantabile), provides the title and a motif for the French novella Moderato Cantabile by Marguerite Duras.

Apt Pupil

In 1995, Chicago's Defiant Theatre staged a full scale adaptation of the novella at the Preston Bradley Center in Chicago, IL.

Babel-17

Delany hoped to have Babel-17 originally published as a single volume with the novella Empire Star, but this did not happen until the 2001 reprint.

Basic English

In his story "Gulf", science fiction writer Robert A. Heinlein used a constructed language called Speedtalk, in which every Basic English word is replaced with a single phoneme, as an appropriate means of communication for a race of genius supermen.

Buxton, Maine

In the movie The Shawshank Redemption (based on the novella Rita Hayworth and Shawshank Redemption by Maine native Stephen King), Buxton is the site of the rock wall where Red goes after being released from prison to retrieve a message from his friend Andy Dufresne, who escaped from prison a few months earlier.

Call of Cthulhu: Dark Corners of the Earth

Although the game's story diverges in several places and features a completely different protagonist, several levels mirror passages from Lovecraft's novella The Shadow over Innsmouth.

Carson McCullers

The novella The Ballad of the Sad Café (1951) depicts loneliness and the pain of unrequited love; at the time of its writing, McCullers was a resident at Yaddo, the artists' colony in Saratoga, New York.

Charles Aberg

Charles Aberg was the obscure star of Andy Warhol's unreleased 1966 feature Withering Sights, a spoof of the classic novella Wuthering Heights.

Charles Jacque

Jacque also provided the illustrations for numerous books, in particular the Vicar of Wakefield by Oliver Goldsmith; The Indian Cottage, a novella published with Paul et Virginie; Picturesque Greece by Christopher Wordsworth; the Works of Shakespeare; and Ancient and Modern Versailles by Alexandre de Laborde.

Conceptions of God

Another example appears in the popular online novella The Metamorphosis of Prime Intellect in which an advanced artificial intelligence uses its own advanced quantum brain to resolve discrepancies in physics theories and develop a unified field theory which gives it absolute control over reality, in a take on philosophical digitalism.

Das Versprechen

The 1958 German-language novella Das Versprechen: Requiem auf den Kriminalroman, by Swiss author Friedrich Dürrenmatt, which is known in English as The Pledge: Requiem for the Detective Novel, and was adapted into the 2001 American film The Pledge, directed by Sean Penn and starring Jack Nicholson.

Derek Beaulieu

His book Flatland consists of visual patterns based on the typography of Edwin Abbott Abbott's classic novel Flatland and his book Local Colour is a series of colour blocks based on the original text of Paul Auster's novella Ghosts.

Dr. Finlay

Based on Cronin's novella entitled Country Doctor, the storylines centred on Dr. Finlay's general medical practice in the fictional Scottish town of Tannochbrae during the late 1920s.

Elisabeth of Wetzikon

Gottfried Keller in the novella «Hadlaub»: gleich neben ihr eine andere Konventualin der Abtei, Frau Elisabeth von Wetzikon, Muhme des Bischofs, die später die bedeutendste Äbtissin wurde, diese auch in weltlicher Tracht. (right next to her another Member of the Assembly of the abbey, Lady Elisabeth of Wetzikon, the aunt of the bishop, who later became the most significant abbess, also in secular garb.)

Fallen Gods

Fallen Gods is an original novella written by Jonathan Blum and Kate Orman and based on the long-running British science fiction television series Doctor Who.

Field of Chaos

Field of Chaos is a compilation of two novella works written by Tom Barbalet in 1993.

Fulgens and Lucrece

The play is based on a Latin novella by Buonaccorso da Montemagno that had been translated into English by John Tiptoft, 1st Earl of Worcester and published in 1481 by William Caxton.

Giorgio Federico Ghedini

In addition to orchestral works, in 1949 he premiered a one-act opera based on the American novella, Billy Budd, by Herman Melville.

Hans-Jürgen von Bose

He wrote the libretto for 63: Dream Palace) himself after the novella by James Purdy.

Hissing Fauna, Are You the Destroyer?

In addition, the album namechecks many things commonly associated with glam rock, such as drugs, art and fashion; "The Past Is a Grotesque Animal" alludes to Edward Albee's play Who's Afraid of Virginia Woolf? and specifically mentions Georges Bataille's novella Story of the Eye.

Jason Sanford

Sanford is a three-time winner of the Interzone Readers' Poll and his novella "Sublimation Angels" was a finalist for the 2009 Nebula Award for Best Novella.

Josette Bushell-Mingo

In 2007 she directed the theatrical production of Margaret Atwood's novella The Penelopiad.

Judoon

In the novella Revenge of the Judoon, where they seized Balmoral Castle in 1902 after being conned into a fraudulent mission, they made a deal with the Doctor that meant Earth was off-limits to them, something confirmed as canonical with the TV series by the BBC Monster Files feature.

Lock puzzle

Clive Barker's horror novella The Hellbound Heart (later adapted into a movie Hellraiser, followed by numerous original sequels) centered around Lemarchand's box which appears to be such a puzzle box but in fact opens the gates to another dimension when manipulated.

Lore Segal

The book was first published in 1976 and later republished by Melville House in 2009 as part of their Art of the Contemporary Novella series.

Lungbarrow

Badger, a character who makes his first appearance in Lungbarrow, has much in common with a character in Peake's Gormenghast novella, Boy in Darkness, which originally appeared in the collected work Sometime, Never by Golding, Wyndham and Peake.

Michael Cawood Green

He is the author of two works of historical fiction, Sinking: A Verse Novella about the 1964 Blyvooruitzicht sinkhole disaster, and For the Sake of Silence about the Trappists in South Africa.

Midnight in Death

Midnight in Death (1998) is a novella by J.D. Robb.

Pauline Baynes

In 1948 Tolkien was visiting his publishers, George Allen & Unwin, to discuss some disappointing artwork that they had commissioned for his novella Farmer Giles of Ham, when he spotted, lying on a desk, some witty reinterpretations of medieval marginalia from the Luttrell Psalter that greatly appealed to him.

Richard Bowes

It included the original novella, "My Life in Speculative Fiction." These stories plus recent material appeared in Streetcar Dreams and Other Midnight Fancies from England's PS Publishing in 2006.

Riding the Bullet

It will feature the novella Riding the Bullet, the original script for the film with same name by Mick Garris, and artwork by Alan M. Clark and Bernie Wrightson.

Royal River

The river is mentioned in several of Maine-native Stephen King's novels, including The Body, when the boys cross the Royal River, only to be attacked by leeches, as well as 'Salem's Lot.

Ryan Colucci

Along with Mike the Pike Productions, he is also attached to produce George R.R. Martin's The Skin Trade, the World Fantasy Award-Winning horror novella from the Dark Visions compilation book.

Send for the Saint

Send for the Saint is a collection of two mystery novellas by Peter Bloxsom, based upon stories by John Kruse and Donald James, continuing the adventures of the sleuth Simon Templar aka "The Saint", created by Leslie Charteris.

Sir Harold and the Gnome King

Another issue addressed was a long-standing plot complication introduced by L. Ron Hubbard's "borrowing" of Shea for use in his novella The Case of the Friendly Corpse (1941), previously ignored by de Camp and Pratt.

Sowing Season

The song title "Sowing Season" is a reference to the novella Secret Window, Secret Garden by author Stephen King in which the character Mort has written a manuscript entitled "Sowing Season".

Stephen King's F13

The "Frightware" bundle also includes a set of "Screamsavers", "Bump and Thump" sound effects, "Deathtop" backgrounds, and Stephen King's short novella Everything's Eventual.

Stewart O'Nan

A Face in the Crowd is a novella by Stephen King and O'Nan, originally published as an e-book on August 21, 2012, as well as an audiobook, read by Craig Wasson.

The Battle of Dorking

The Battle of Dorking: Reminiscences of a Volunteer is an 1871 novella by George Tomkyns Chesney, starting the genre of invasion literature and an important precursor of science fiction.

The Courts of Chaos

The allusions grow deep here however; the line in Lolita is itself an allusion to Bizet's Carmen as well as Mérimée's novella upon which it is based.

The Little French Lawyer

The plot of the play is based on a story by Massuccio di Salerno (his Il novellino, novella xli), perhaps in the version in Guzmán de Alfarache by Mateo Alemán (1599, 1605).

The Opium General and other stories

The Alchemist's Question was the last Jerry Cornelius novella and was the cornerstone work of the volume.

The Psychiatrist

O alienista or The Psychiatrist, a novella by Machado de Assis

The Saint on TV

The Saint on TV is a collection of two mystery novellas by Fleming Lee, continuing the adventures of the sleuth Simon Templar aka "The Saint", created by Leslie Charteris.

The Short Second Life of Bree Tanner

The Short Second Life of Bree Tanner is a companion novella to the Twilight series by author Stephenie Meyer.

Valery Todorovsky

Among the films he directed is the crime melodrama set in Moscow, The Country of Deaf (Strana Glukhikh), scripted by actress-director-scriptwriter Renata Litvinova based on her own novella To Have and to Belong, and Hipsters.

Violet Crumble

In the novella Pobby and Dingan by Ben Rice, Kellyanne's two imaginary friends eat nothing but Violet Crumbles, Cherry Ripes and lollies.


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