Truman Capote loosely based his 1951 novella on his childhood with spinster aunts in the South.
Over at Science-Based Medicine, neurologist and skeptic Steven Novella has a more positive interpretation.
If we value books by length, then a novella would naturally be priced lower.
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But Steven Novella, a vocal critic at Yale University, argues that the centre's very existence fuels the cause.
To clarify, let me provide an example from Franz Kafka's classic novella "The Metamorphosis, " the subject of countless interpretations.
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"My Son the Fanatic" is a novella by Hanif Kureishi that speaks to the difficulties of acculturation of second-generation Muslims.
Such a surrealistic notion could have easily swept the novella into further regions of fantasy, to weird situations or slapstick humor.
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The new novella is told from the point of view of Bree, a character originally featured in the third Twilight book, Eclipse.
Uniquely for the time, the original game came packaged with a specially commissioned novella called The Dark Wheel by Gollancz author Robert Holdstock.
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With two earlier collections of stories and a novella, Ha Jin attracted notice as a guide to a world few outside China know.
And if rankings are determined by dollar sales then a novella has to sell dramatically more to compete with a full length novel.
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Winner gets universal admiration and a free copy of the Zen of Steve Jobs, the smash-hit graphic novella by Forbes reporter Caleb Melby.
For an objective summary of the evidence, see the articles by neurologist Steven Novella here and here, which summarize a dozen epidemiological studies.
An Italian courtroom drama, adapted from a novella by Leonard Sciascia.
Based on a novella by US preacher and author Max Lucado, the film is set in an 1890s English village where blessed candles answer people's prayers.
When Stephen King, a horror writer, posted a novella on the Internet in March this year, some 400, 000 people downloaded it within the first 24 hours.
In "The Aspern Papers, " Mr. Argento skillfully opens up the Henry James novella, adding a backstory and more characters, so that past and present coexist and collide.
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Young adult author Kate Milford is self-publishing a novella to accompany the September release of her second novel, "The Broken Lands, " by Clarion Books, Ms. McNally said.
It is based on a novella by Pulitzer Prize-winning author Annie Proulx, with a screenplay co-authored by Pulitzer-winner Larry McMurtry, and stars Jake Gyllenhall and Heath Ledger.
Dr Edurne Novella-Maestre and colleagues from the Valencia Infertility Institute in Spain told the ESHRE conference how a new treatment might block endometriosis and the associated cancers.
Your next stop is the breathtaking Basilica of Santa Maria Novella and the Cappella Strozzi section, in particular, which is decorated with Divine Comedy themed frescoes by Nardo di Cione.
Large jugs, filled with garden roses, are good on tables, as is a big dish holding a generous pile of Santa Maria Novella potpourri (which I feel no room is complete without).
The stage adaption of Capote's classic 1958 novella stars Emilia Clarke of HBO's "Game of Thrones" as the eccentric party girl Golightly, a role Hepburn played to acclaim in the 1961 movie.
The question is, are you also the sort of reader who believes professional novella-length journalism, imaginatively packaged in a way that leverages the capabilities of the digital format, is worth three bucks a pop?
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This is what makes the novella a classic.
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Doomsday scenarios have become a familiar sight in the movies since the beginning of the Cold War, and for the most part, "Stephen King's The Mist, " from a King novella, sticks closely to the archetype.
In the novella, the narrator, a scholar of the long-dead poet Jeffrey Aspern, insinuates himself into the household of Juliana Bordereau, the poet's aged former lover, to try and secure the valuable papers that may be in her possession.
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What matters are the bond prices, and the subsequent weakening of the foreign currencies as demand for U.S. Treasurys increased just prior to the end of QE2 and the beginning of the Washington novella known as the debt debate.
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Conversely, a game like Spec Ops: The Line hit me so hard because it was at once a new level of storytelling in video games and a throwback to films like Apocalypse Now and the Joseph Conrad novella, Heart of Darkness.
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The effect was first used in an 1862 dramatization of Charles Dickens' novella "The Haunted Man and the Ghost's Bargain, " staged at the Royal Polytechnic Institute in London, according to Jim Steinmeyer, an illusion designer who has written extensively about the history of his craft, including Pepper's Ghost.
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