Novellas

Novellas are quite unheard of compared to regular novels.  Novels, such as all the books in the Harry Potter series or the books in the James Bond series are quite popular compared to novellas.  However, some novellas are very popular.  But first, what even is a novella?  Well, a novella is a short story.  There are acutal definitions that define what a novella is. The Science Fiction and Fantasy Writers of America Nebula Awards for science fiction define the novella as having a word count between 17,500 and 40,000 while others say the minimum number of words for a novella is 10,000 and the maximum is 70,000.   Other ways to know wheter it is a novella or a novel is the number of problems.  Generally, novellas have less problems and they are not divided into chapters.  Instead, they are supposed to be read at a single reading.  I never knew how to define a novella, or even that there was such a thing as a novella so I didn't know I had actually read very famous novellas before.  Dr.Jekyll and Mr.Hyde by Louis Stevenson and A Christmas Carol by Charles Dickens are very famous novellas that I have read.  Of course, Of Mice and Men by John Steinbeck is a very famous novella, although I have not read it yet.  Hopefully, it is a good read.



http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Novella