One of these poems further intrigued him, and he began to rework the headnote to turn it into first a short story and then a novella.

One convoluted example of a multi-level narrative structure is Joseph Conrad's novella Heart of Darkness, which has a double framework: an unidentified " I " ( first person singular ) narrator relates a boating trip during which another character, Marlow, tells in the first person the story that comprises the majority of the work.

Bi-2 first obtained popularity in 2000, with the release of their first hit " No One Writes to the Colonel " (" Полковнику никто не пишет "), the title of a novella by Gabriel García Márquez.

# One Small Step ( 1990 ), novella

# One Small Step ( 1990 ), novella

The novella One Small Step is even set in the future and deals with the detectives investigating a murder on the moon.

It includes the novella The Beckoning Fair One, widely regarded as one of the best in the genre of horror fiction, especially psychological horror.

The novel consists of two earlier short stories, " One Trip Across " and " The Tradesman's Return ", which make up the opening chapters and a novella, written later, which makes up two-thirds of the book.

No One Writes to the Colonel () is a novella written by the Colombian novelist and Nobel Prize winner Gabriel García Márquez.

In November 1962 the magazine became famous for publishing Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn's groundbreaking One Day in the Life of Ivan Denisovich, a novella about a prisoner of the Gulag.

Prior to that, Russian students studied Solzhenitsyn's short story " Matryonin dvor " and the famous novella One Day of Ivan Denisovich, a detailed account of a single day in the life of a GULAG prisoner.

King is a fan of John D. MacDonald, and dedicated the novella " Sun Dog " to MacDonald, saying " I miss you, old friend.

Perhaps inspired by the Lydney Park excavations, Arthur Machen's novella The Great God Pan ( 1890 ; revised and expanded 1894 ) has a Roman pillar dedicated to Nodens.

The Mountain Goats song " Family Happiness " takes its name from the novella and includes the line " Started quoting Tolstoy into the machine / I had no idea what you meant ".

Behn's story was not primarily a protest against slavery but was written for money ; and it met readers ' expectations by following the conventions of the European romance novella.

That same year Gass published Willie Masters ' Lonesome Wife, an experimental novella illustrated with photographs and typographical constructs intended to help readers free themselves from the linear conventions of narrative.

* 2010 Precious and the Puggies ( novella for younger readers, first published in a Scots language translation by James Robertson.

* 2012 Precious and the Mystery of Meerkat Hill ( novella for younger readers )

When several readers wrote letters of protest to Isaac Asimov's Science Fiction Magazine about its 1983 publication of Bishop's novella " The Gospel According to Gamaliel Crucis ," Isaac Asimov himself wrote an editorial defending the work and the editor's decision to publish it.

There are also four lesser known paperback " novella " books intended for older readers.

), this novella is still highly enjoyable, somewhat educational and will leave readers happy at the end.

Nineteenth-century English ( language ) literature features usages of nigger without racist connotation, e. g. the Joseph Conrad novella The Nigger of the ' Narcissus ' ( 1897 ).

novella is one of the richest and most rewarding of literary forms ... it allows for more extended development of theme and character than does the short story, without making the elaborate structural demands of the full-length book.

Highlights included The Snowball ( 20 April 1966 ) adapted from the novel by Brigid Brophy, Toddler on the Run adapted by Shena Mackay from her novella and directed by James MacTaggart, ( 25 May 1966 ) Cock Hen and Courting Pit ( renamed A Tour of the Old Floorboards ( 22 June 1966 ) by David Halliwell and two plays by Frank O ' Connor ( which Hugh Leonard adapted ) virtually without dialogue and which, renamed Silent Song, won The Prix Italia award in 1967 for ' original dramatic programmes ' jointly with a French programme.

In the final years of the 18th century Lamb began to work on prose with the novella entitled Rosamund Gray, a story of a young girl who was thought to be inspired by Ann Simmonds, with whom Charles Lamb was thought to be in love.

" The Sun Dog ", a novella by Stephen King that appears in the 1990 collection Four Past Midnight, gives passing mention to " a fellow in Dunwich, Massachusetts, to whom Pop had once sold a so-called spirit trumpet for ninety dollars ; the fellow had taken the trumpet to the Dunwich Cemetery and must have heard something exceedingly unpleasant, because he had been raving in a padded cell in Arkham for almost six years now, totally insane.

: The novella follows a young heroin addict who is befriended by Larry, an older man, from whom he receives an unusual pet.

In the longest novella, Princess Mary, Pechorin flirts with the Princess of the title, while conducting an affair with his ex-lover Vera, and kills his friend Grushnitsky ( of whom he is secretly contemptuous ) in a duel in which the participants stand in turn on the edge of a cliff so that the loser's death can be explained as an accidental fall.

Hatcher adapted Robert Louis Stevenson's novella, The Strange Case of Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde, into a play in which actors play multiple roles, and Mr. Hyde is played by four actors, one of whom is female.

In the novella, The Fox tells The Prince that his Rose is unique and special, because she is the one whom he loves.

Berlin quotes a series of scholars who suggest that the author of Esther did not mean for the book to be considered as a historical writing, but intentionally wrote it to be a historical novella.

Robinson gave the novella in rough form to Ursula K. Le Guin to read and edit while he was enrolled in her writing workshop at UCSD in the spring of 1977.

It also appears in Lost Laysen, the novella Mitchell wrote as a teenager in 1916, and in Mitchell's last known novel, Gone with the Wind, which she began writing in 1926.

He starred as Fyodor Dostoyevsky in the Hungarian director Károly Makk's movie The Gambler ( 1997 ) about the writing of Dostoyevsky's novella The Gambler.

Lee was tasked with writing a novella on which a script could be based, submitting it at the end of 1983.

He then went to night school at New York University ( NYU ), where classes on novella writing and utopian fiction developed his tastes for some of the common forms and topics of science fiction.

Shakespeare, in writing the play, probably drew upon the twenty-eighth novella of William Painter's Palace of Pleasure, the thirty-eighth novella of which was the main source for his All's Well That Ends Well.

Created slowly over the last five years of his life, the novella Billy Budd represents Melville's return to prose fiction after a full three decades where his only literary activity was writing poetry.

She began writing in 1976 but has achieved her greatest notice since the publication of her Hugo and Nebula-winning 1991 novella " Beggars in Spain " which was later expanded into a novel with the same title.

His book La Perla (" The Pearl ") inspired the writing of the novella, much the same, by John Steinbeck.

** The Gambler ( 1997 film ), 1997 film about the writing of the novella, directed by Károly Makk

It is a novella ( 187 pages ) with relatively little of the obscenity which characterized his later writing as it was written in the classical style ( which was fashionable at the time ), with much verbose and metaphorical description.

After the Jungle Novels, B. Traven practically stopped writing longer literary forms, publishing only short stories, including the novella or Mexican fairy tale Macario, which was originally written in English but first published in German in 1950.

In the Epilogue To The Kreutzer Sonata, published in 1890, Tolstoy clarifies the intended message of the novella, writing:

Referring to the corrupt text, she wrote that " although the Boy in Boy in Darkness is assuredly Titus Groan, did not call him so by name "; however, adding the name Titus was one of the specific changes that Peake made between writing and publishing his novella.

After some early attempts at comedic science fiction, her first attempt at novel writing was a science fiction comedy novel written for classmates, before a " scribbled paragraph " became Dragon Tamers, a 60, 000 word novella written in six months.

* The Gambler ( 1997 )-about the writing of Fyodor Dostoyevsky's novella by the same name

Gygax even suggested the name " Robilar ", after a minor character in The Gnome Cache, a novella Gygax was writing that eventually would be serialized in the first few issues of The Dragon starting in June 1976.

Daisy Ashford, full name Margaret Mary Julia Ashford, later Devlin ( 7 April 1881 – 15 January 1972 ) was an English writer who is most famous for writing The Young Visiters, a novella concerning the upper class society of late 19th century England, when she was just nine years old.

Crime writing, as defined by the CWC, is any fictional or factual book-length work, novella or short-story that features crime as a major or principal element, and is written for any print or electronic medium.

The second is a novella set in 1985, seven years distant at the time of the novel's writing.

( In reality, the UK firemen's union had taken industrial action for the first time ever, in 1977, presumably when Burgess was writing the novella.

He also mentions that when he began writing the series in 1999, he chose as villains " an obscure but fanatical and unpleasant gang who might, conceivably, be planning an atrocity on American soil "; but that by the time the novel was to be published in late 2001, Al-Qaeda was no longer obscure, so he chose a different group to use in the novella.