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Carmen (novella)
Carmen, Prosper Mérimée's 1845 French novella, narrates Don José's fatal love for the Romani Carmen in Andalusia; source of Bizet's 1875 opera, with a frame narrator and fabricated ethnographic fourth chapter.
Carmilla
Carmilla, Gothic vampire novella by Sheridan Le Fanu (1872), serialized in The Dark Blue and collected in In a Glass Darkly; narrated by Laura in Styria, an early female-lesbian vampire tale influencing Dracula.
Cat and Mouse
Cat and Mouse (Katz und Maus) is a 1961 novella by Günter Grass and the second part of his Danzig Trilogy, set in Danzig during the Nazi era.
Ceremonia secreta
Ceremonia secreta is a short novel by the Argentine writer Marco Denevi, first prize winner in a Life en español contest in 1960 and published as a book in 1961.
Children of the Underground
Children of the Underground (Дети подземелья) is the shortened, child-oriented version of Vladimir Korolenko's 1885 novella In Bad Society, a standard Soviet fifth-grade school text.
Chronicle of a Death Foretold
Chronicle of a Death Foretold (Crónica de una muerte anunciada) is Gabriel García Márquez's 1981 novella reconstructing the announced murder of Santiago Nasar by the Vicario twins, told by an unnamed narrator 27 years later in five nonlinear parts.
Clara Milich
Clara Milich, also known as After Death, is an 1883 novella by Ivan Turgenev about a man haunted by an actress who killed herself after he rejected her.
Convenience Store Woman
Convenience Store Woman (Konbini ningen) is a 2016 novel by Japanese writer Sayaka Murata about Furukura Keiko, who has worked part-time in one Tokyo convenience store for 18 years.
Crabwalk
Crabwalk (German: Im Krebsgang) is a 2002 novella by Günter Grass about the 1945 sinking of the Wilhelm Gustloff and its place in German memory.
Crescent Moon
Crescent Moon (月牙儿, Yueya'er) is a 1935 novella by the Chinese writer Lao She, in which a widowed mother and her daughter are both forced into prostitution.
Croatian God Mars
Croatian God Mars (Hrvatski bog Mars) is a cycle of seven anti-war novellas by Miroslav Krleža about Croatian home guards in the First World War.
Danny Coughlin's Bad Dream
Danny Coughlin's Bad Dream is a Stephen King novella from You Like It Darker (Scribner, May 21, 2024): janitor Danny Coughlin has a prophetic dream of a murder, reports it, and becomes the suspect, pursued by detective Jalbert.
Day of the Oprichnik
Day of the Oprichnik (Den' oprichnika) is a 2006 satirical dystopian novella by Vladimir Sorokin, following one day of an oprichnik serving a future Russian tsar.
Days and Nights
Days and Nights (Дни и ночи) is a novella by the Soviet writer Konstantin Simonov about the 1942–1943 defense of Stalingrad, his first large prose work.
Death in Venice
Death in Venice (Der Tod in Venedig) is Thomas Mann's 1912 novella about writer Gustav von Aschenbach's obsession with the Polish boy Tadzio in cholera-stricken Venice; adapted by Visconti (1971 film) and Britten (1973 opera).
Dream Story
Dream Story (Traumnovelle) is Arthur Schnitzler's 1926 novella about the Viennese couple Fridolin and Albertine, whose confessed desires and dreams unsettle their marriage; serialized in Die Dame, published by S. Fischer, and adapted by Kubrick as Eyes Wide Shut (1999).
Dry Valley
Dry Valley (Russian: Sukhodol), also known as Drydale, is a novella by Ivan Bunin, first published in 1912, chronicles the degradation of the Khrushchev gentry family.
Dzhan
Dzhan (Джан), also translated as Soul, is a novella by the Soviet writer Andrey Platonov, written in 1935 about an economist sent to save a destitute desert people.
Ek Chadar Maili Si
Ek Chadar Maili Si (ایک چادر میلی سی) is a 1962 Urdu novella by Rajinder Singh Bedi that won the Sahitya Akademi Award in 1965 and was adapted to film in India and Pakistan.
Ethan Frome
Ethan Frome, Edith Wharton's 1911 novella (begun as the French exercise Hiver), is set in Starkfield, Massachusetts, and told by a frame-narrator engineer; unlike her society novels, it is her most celebrated rural tragedy of duty, desire, and a crippling sled crash.
Everything Flows
Everything Flows (Все течет…) is the last work of the Soviet writer Vasily Grossman, a novella written between 1955 and 1963 about a man returning from thirty years in the Gulag.
Family Happiness
Family Happiness («Семейное счастие») is an 1859 novella by Leo Tolstoy, first published in Russky Vestnik, narrated by Masha, whose marriage passes through cooling, quarrels, and a redefined happiness.
Farewell to Matyora
Farewell to Matyora (Прощание с Матёрой) is a 1976 novella by Valentin Rasputin about a Siberian village's last summer before flooding for a hydroelectric dam, a key work of Soviet Village Prose.
Farewell, Gulsary!
Farewell, Gulsary! is a 1966 novella by the Kyrgyz writer Chingiz Aitmatov, following the herdsman Tanabai and his pacer horse Gulsary through collectivization in Soviet Kyrgyzstan.
Farmer Giles of Ham
Farmer Giles of Ham (full title The Rise and Wonderful Adventures of Farmer Giles, Lord of Tame, Count of Worminghall and King of the Little Kingdom) is Tolkien's 1949 comic novella, illustrated by Pauline Baynes, about a farmer, a blunderbuss, the sword Tailbiter, and the dragon Chrysophylax.
Father Sergius
Father Sergius (Отец Сергий) is a novella by Leo Tolstoy about Prince Stepan Kasatsky, a young officer who enters a monastery; it appeared posthumously in 1911.
Flatland
Flatland: A Romance of Many Dimensions, Edwin Abbott Abbott's 1884 satirical novella published as "A Square", set in a two-dimensional world of ranked polygons; satire of Victorian class and gender plus an introduction to higher dimensions.
Gandoki
Gandoki (Ganɗoki) is a Hausa-language novella by Muhammadu Bello Kagara, published in Zaria in 1934 and counted among the founding works of modern written Hausa prose fiction.
Ghost Love
Ghost Love is a 1937 novella by Chinese writer Xu Xu, in which a Shanghai writer falls in love with a woman who claims to be a ghost.
Hadji Murat
Hadji Murat (Хаджи-Мурат) is Leo Tolstoy's last major novella, set in the Caucasus in 1851–1852 and based on a real Avar commander who defected from Imam Shamil to the Russians.