List of novellas

This is a selected list of novellas that have gained fame and/or critical and public acclaim. The generally accepted length of a novella is 20,000 to 40,000 words, differing from a short story (1,000-7,500 words), a novelette (7,500-20,000 words) and a novel (above 40,000 words).

List of notable novellas

*"The Alienist" (1882) Machado de Assis
*"Animal Farm" (1945) George Orwell
*"Anthem" (1938) Ayn Rand
*"The Aspern Papers" (1888) Henry James
*"The Awakening" (1899) Kate Chopin
*"The Ballad of the Sad Cafe" (1951) Carson McCullers
*"The Barracks Thief" (1984) Tobias Wolff
*"The Bear" (1941) William Faulkner
*"The Beast in the Jungle" (1903) Henry James
*"Bartleby, the Scrivener" (1853) Herman Melville
*"Benito Cereno" (1855) Herman Melville
*"The Bicentennial Man" (1976) Isaac Asimov
*"Billy Budd" (1892; first published in 1924) Herman Melville
*"Breakfast at Tiffany's" (1958) Truman Capote
*"Cascade Point" (1983) Timothy Zahn
*"A Christmas Carol" (1843) Charles Dickens
*"Daisy Miller" (1878) Henry James
*"The Dead" (1914) James Joyce, which concludes "Dubliners"
*"Death in Venice" (1913) Thomas Mann
*"The Death of Ivan Ilyich" (1886) Leo Tolstoy
*"Debt of Bones" (2001) Terry Goodkind
*"Ethan Frome" (1911) Edith Wharton
*"Everyman" (2006) Philip Roth
*"First Love" (1860) Ivan Turgenev
*"The Golden Pot" (1814) E. T. A. Hoffmann
*"Hadji Murat" (1904) Leo Tolstoy
*"Heart of Darkness" (1902) Joseph Conrad
*"The House on Mango Street" (1984) Sandra Cisneros
*"I Am Legend" (1954) Richard Matheson
*"In the Ravine" (1900) Anton Chekhov
*"Klein and Wagner" (1920) Hermann Hesse
*"Legends of the Fall" (1977) Jim Harrison
*"The Lifted Veil" (1859) George Eliot
*"" (1893) Stephen Crane
*"Mario and the Magician" (1930) Thomas Mann
*"The Metamorphosis" (1915) Franz Kafka
*"Miss Lonelyhearts" (1933) Nathanael West
*"My Mortal Enemy" (1926) Willa Cather
*"The Mist" (1980) Stephen King
*"No One Writes to the Colonel" (1961) Gabriel García Márquez
*"Of Mice and Men" (1937) John Steinbeck
*"The Old Man and the Sea" (1952) Ernest Hemingway
*"Oroonoko" (1688) Aphra Behn
*"Pafko at the Wall" (1997) Don DeLillo
*"Pale Horse, Pale Rider" (1939) Katherine Anne Porter
*"Pedro Paramo" (1955) Juan Rulfo
*"The Pearl" (1945) John Steinbeck
*"The Prague Orgy" (1985) Philip Roth
*"The Prime of Miss Jean Brodie" (1962) Muriel Spark
*"A River Runs Through It" (1976) Norman Maclean
*"Sailing to Byzantium" (1984) Robert Silverberg
*"Seize the Day" (1956) Saul Bellow
*"Senso" (1874) Camillo Boito
*"The Shadow Line" (1917) Joseph Conrad
*"The Shadow Over Innsmouth" (1931) H. P. Lovecraft
*"Shopgirl" (2001) Steve Martin
*"The Snow Goose" (1940) John Wyndham
*"The Strange Case of Dr Jekyll and Mr Hyde" (1886) Robert Louis Stevenson
*"The Stranger" (1942) Albert Camus
*"The Turn of the Screw" (1898) Henry James
*"The Two Deaths of Quincas Wateryell" (1959) Jorge Amado
*"Ward Number Six" (1892) Anton Chekhov
*"The War of the Worlds" (1898) H.G. Wells
*"The Woman Who Waited" (2006) Andrei Makine
*"The Willows" (1907) Algernon Blackwood
*"Young Zaphod Plays it Safe" (1986) Douglas Adams
*** The Cubs (1980) Mario Vargas Llosa
*** The Pit (1939) Juan Carlos Onetti
*** Aura (1962) Carlos Fuentes
*** The Kigdom of this World (1949) Alejo Carpentier

Novella series

There have also been notable series of novellas published over the years, including:
*"The Decameron" -- is a collection of 100 novellas (in the original sense of a "new story") by Italian author Giovanni Boccaccio, probably begun in 1350 and finished in 1353. It is a medieval allegorical work best known for its bawdy tales of love, appearing in all its possibilities from the erotic to the tragic. Other topics such as wit and witticism, practical jokes and worldly initiation also form part of the mosaic. Beyond its entertainment and literary popularity it remains an important historical document of life in the fourteenth century.
* 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.

External links

* [http://www.amazon.com/gp/richpub/listmania/fullview/3GY6GF5NZIR9C List of British Novellas]