novella

[ noh-vel-uh ]

/ noʊˈvɛl ə /

a tale or short story of the type contained in the Decameron of Boccaccio.

a fictional prose narrative that is longer and more complex than a short story; a short novel.

Origin of novella

From Italian, dating back to 1900–05; see origin at novel¹

And in some ways [the novella at the end of the collection] “Jack and the Mad Dog” just sort of set me free.

Tony Earley's Imaginary Friends |Mindy Farabee |September 2, 2014 |DAILY BEAST
I see my novella as being part of that—as part of the social discourse.

The Surprisingly Good Flight 370 Novel: Author Scott Maka Defends His Controversial Book |Tim Teeman |June 14, 2014 |DAILY BEAST
I tried to make that clear in the author's note at the start of the novella, but it seems that I was not emphatic enough.

The Surprisingly Good Flight 370 Novel: Author Scott Maka Defends His Controversial Book |Tim Teeman |June 14, 2014 |DAILY BEAST
The surprise is that the 127-page novella is far from terrible and creepy.

The Surprisingly Good Flight 370 Novel: Author Scott Maka Defends His Controversial Book |Tim Teeman |June 14, 2014 |DAILY BEAST

Three years later, I returned to Beijing and wrote my first novella—Stick Out Your Tongue, inspired by my travels through Tibet.

Ma Jian: How I Write |Noah Charney |June 12, 2013 |DAILY BEAST
And yet in comparison with its importance in this respect the novella and the romance of chivalry are quite insignificant.

John Lyly |John Dover Wilson
With Crabbe the novella became as distinctly the short story as it has become in the hands of Miss Wilkins.

Literature and Life |William Dean Howells
The Novella is crowned every year at Assumption, and her red robe is changed at the same time; it is the custom.

Very Woman |Remy de Gourmont
These circumstances determined the length and ruled the mechanism of the Novella.

Renaissance in Italy: Italian Literature |John Addington Symonds
The name is derived from Calandro, a simpleton of Calandrino's type; and the interest of the plot is that of a Novella.

Renaissance in Italy: Italian Literature |John Addington Symonds

novella

/ (nəʊˈvɛlə) /

(formerly) a short narrative tale, esp a popular story having a moral or satirical point, such as those in Boccaccio's Decameron

a short novel; novelette

C20: from Italian; see novel 1