But no doubt there are other reasons why the novel should not finally be of the length of Hamlet, and I must not let my enthusiasm for the novelette carry me too far, or, rather, bring me up too short.
The novelette can have almost as perfect form as the novella.
It is therefore still awaiting its authoritative avatar, which it will be some one's prosperity and glory to imagine; for in the novelette are possibilities for fiction as yet scarcely divined.
She had a book in her hand, not a college text-book but a novelette; and probably the whole of the novelette was in her glad change of tone.
The following are parallel extracts from the imaginary Rabbi’s speech vouched for by the author of the novelette as fact a number of years later.
Only, if your novelette was in one volume, and your farce in one act, all I played in was a little duodecimo sheet, and a single scene.
This novelette pitted a man of the Blue Grass against a man of the Kentucky hills, and the struggle was not overly severe; the reading world did little more than remark its appearance and its passing.
It was followed by a novelette of love set amidst the salt-sea atmosphere of an eastern watering place, Ministers of Grace (New York, 1894).
This novelette made the author many friends, as it is a charming story.
In the play the ceremony is interrupted by the bride's father, but in the novelette the plot is finished and the girl becomes the victim of the destroyer.
A recentnovelette by Frances Hodgson Burnett, called The White People, has psychical phenomena for its central interest.
It was nearly always, in the matter of structure, a slovenly form; and there is therefore little cause for regret that the novelette seems destined to supplant it.
For the novelette accomplishes the same purpose as the novel, with necessarily a more intensive emphasis of art, and with a tax considerably less upon the time and attention of the reader.
The novelettedeals with fewer characters and incidents than the novel; it usually limits itself to a stricter economy of time and place; it presents a less extensive view of life, with (most frequently) a more intensive art.
This charming novelette is reprinted by arrangement from the London Graphic, appearing here in advance of its completion in London.
Two nickel novels were written, a serial was put through the Factory for Mr. Davis, and he collected $200 for a novelette which he sold to People's.
Nickel novels, a few short stories, a novelette for The Blue Book and the lengthening of two stories for paper-book publication comprised the year's work.
As Edwards was leaving, after outlining a novelette and receiving a commission to write it, he paused with one hand on the door-knob.
After completing this serial, Edwards outlined to Mr. White a novelette which would furnish The Argosy with something new in the fiction line.
Mr. John Milton Edwards, Dear Sir:-- Allow me to congratulate you upon your success with the novelettein a recent issue of the Blue Book.
The "highwayman" novelette was finished and submitted in its complete form on Jan.
Already in the first year of her literary career her keen appreciation of the art and its higher influences had prompted her clever novelette La Marquise.
An extreme instance is Flaminio (1854), a protracted drama, drawn by Madame Sand from her novelette Teverino.
She had begun to make amateur essays in novel-writing, but was as dissatisfied with them as with the compositions of her childhood, and with a religious novelette she had produced whilst in the convent, and speedily committed to the flames.
This method of the Hearthstone was well known to Allen Slayton when he wrote his novelette entitled "Love Is All.
With a novelette in the Hearthstone, literary reputation would soon be his.
The reading, however, was postponed, and the novelette was sent to Dagny.
Meanwhile the author wondered to what purpose this unluckily born novelette could be turned.
She knew, of course, which novelette was so confusedly written that it could not be counted in.
Yet he was better able to imagine her in the luxury of the Orient than sleeping down the sun over a crumpled novelette in such a room as Poppy's in Camden Town.
The large bed was ruffled where she had been lying down, and the soiled copy of a novelette gave it a sort of stale slovenry.
Afterwards she took up a penny novelette which she had borrowed from her landlady, and tried to interest herself in the impossible story which it contained.
Merritt wrote a novelette for All-Story that was destined to make science fiction history.
One of these yarns, a novelette entitled "The Meteor-Men of Plaa," appears as the feature story in the current issue of Amazing Stories magazine.
It's like a novelette again," said Peg, and fell upon her machine with renewed energy.
A half-finished pink-backed novelette lay on the bed where Peg had flung it down unfinished last night when she went out, and Faith took it up with reverent fingers.
Peg stuffed the novelette into a pocket; the story of the Honourable Fitzmaurice Arlington suddenly paled beside this real-life romance.
Yes, yes, my friend, I know the novelette well; I read it aloud to the Court barely a week ago.
Was she perchance the beautiful widow in the novelette who consoled the uncle for the loss of Hilarie?
Yet this elephantine novelette has a host of excellent and eloquent moral reflections in it, shouldering and elbowing themselves out from its flimsy dress of fiction.
I wish that you could have a long novelette like "The Ape-Men of Xloti" in every issue of "our" magazine.
Stuart was sitting on the table, the novelette on his knees.
The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "novelette" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word. Other words: dreadful; novel; vignette
