Novella

Prose genres Poetry genres Dramatic genres

• Comedy
• Libretto
• Play
  • historical
  • moral
• Satire
• Script
• Tragedy
• Tragicomedy

History

• Ancient
• Medieval
  • Early medieval
• Early modern
  • Renaissance
• 18th
• 19th
• 20th
• Contemporary
  • 21st

Media

• Voice
  • audiobook
  • speech
• Writing
  • book
  • digital electronics
    • ebook
  • manuscript

Lists and outlines

• Outline
• Glossary
• Books
• Epic
  • folk-epics
• Poets
• Writers
• Movements
  • poetry groups
• Cycles
• Literary awards
  • poetry
• Short story collection / Cycle
• Lost literary work
  • lacuna

Theory and criticism

• Sociology
• Magazines
• Composition
• Language
• Narrative
• Comparative
• Circle
• Society
• Post-literate Society
• Peer
• Feud
• Estate
• Workshop
  • Circle

A novella is a book of narrative prose fiction whose length is shorter than most novels, but longer than most novelettes and short stories. The English word "novella" derives from the Italian novella meaning a short story related to true (or apparently so) facts.