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Meanings of short novel in English

Russian
повесть
Spanish
povest
Catalan
povest

Form of prosaic literature, longer than a short story and a novella but shorter than a novel.

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        Usage of short novel in English
        1
        Also, for a relatively short novel a tremendous amount is included.
        The Guardian
        2
        It's a slim, short novel for taking on the road, and it's very funny.
        The Irish Times
        3
        Although a short novel - 180 double-spaced pages - it has quite a complicated plot.
        The Irish Times
        4
        There was a short novel in 1983 dementedly entitled O, How the Wheel Becomes It!
        The Guardian
        5
        Fortes's short novel is essentially a historical romance that concentrates on the relationship between Capa and Taro.
        The Guardian
        6
        In this short novel, the words "decadent" and "decadence" and their derived forms are repeated twenty-one times.
        At the mountains of madness
        7
        Next, she related her betrayed and deluded love in a short novel, one of the masterpieces of that period.
        Beatrix
        8
        The countryside is rarely excavated with the panache of Cynan Jones in this dark, tense and vital short novel.
        The Guardian
        9
        He chose a short novel, written by a down-at-heel Italian aristocrat just before his death from lung cancer in 1957.
        The Irish Times
        10
        However, despite Achebe's compelling "evidence", I am still finding it difficult to dismiss this man and his short novel.
        The Guardian
        11
        A short novel, told with a nicely tart sense of humour and with a line in dialogue that uses non-sequiturs delightfully.
        The Irish Times
        12
        In a blank between two paragraphs of this arresting short novel, a lone man in a kayak is struck by lightning.
        The Guardian
        13
        What I find difficult to fathom is just why Conrad's short novel, Heart of Darkness, should exercise such a hold on him?
        The Guardian
        14
        There is also a short novel that soon followed, called "To Remember a Summer By." At least one publisher rejected it.
        Reuters
        15
        A short novel, deceptively simple, it tells two tales of life at home and away whose symmetrical dangers are presented in stark terms.
        The Irish Times
        16
        Or plenty, at least, to journalist Phil Bronstein, who has written a short novel of an article about him for US magazine Esquire.
        The Guardian
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        Translations for short novel
        Spanish
        povest
        Catalan
        povest
        Short novel across language varieties
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