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List of novellas

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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

Novella series

There have also been notable series of novellas published over the years, including:

  • The Decameron -- is a collection of 100 novellas 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 Beyond its entertainment and literary popularity it remains an important historical document of life in the fourteenth century.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.

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