![]() A great novella has room for a plot that snags your attention, characters that are quickly established but feel fully real, and a focus that stays true from the first word to the last. Many famous books are actually novellas: Animal Farm (111 pages), The Little Prince (88 pages), The Prime of Miss Jean Brodie (144 pages), and The Ballad of the Sad Cafe (152 pages). ![]() ![]() On average, a 100 page book is around 25,000 and, in my experience, few books marketed as novellas ever reach 200 pages. The English word “novella” derives from the Italian novella, feminine of novello, which means “new”. Publishers and literary award societies typically describe a novella’s word count as falling between 15,000 and 40,000 words, although definitions vary. A novella is a work of narrative prose fiction, longer than a short story but shorter than a novel. ![]()
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