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According to the definition at novella, A Clockwork Orange is too long to be considered a novella. It is 192 pages whereas novellas are a maximum of around 100. So I have removed it RoyBatty42 04:49, 13 January 2007 (UTC)
The this article is a list of notable novellas, not a list of collections. Hence I removed these two entries:
I moved the The Decameron to the novella series section.
In addition, I broke down the two Stephen King collections ( Different Seasons and Four Past Midnight) to show the actual novellas. HOWEVER - I think this should also be expunged and only the novellas themselves be listed. But that should follow a general purge of this entire article. It supposed to be notable novellas, but seems more like every novella people could come up with. But, I will leave that for further debate. RoyBatty42 04:49, 13 January 2007 (UTC)
Looks as though they may have started in title order; would date order be better ? GrahamHardy ( talk) 14:28, 5 December 2007 (UTC)
On its wikipedia page it calls it a short story, therefore I replaced it with an H. P. Lovecraft novella called The Shadow Over Innsmouth, which is an H. P. Lovecraft fan favorite and has been loosely adapted several times. Sacularamacal13 ( talk) 20:58, 25 August 2008 (UTC)
I think we should be a lot more careful about what is classified as a "novella." Works like "Oroonoko" and "The Decameron" were written far before the idea of a novel was even conceived, and I seriously doubt any literary scholar would call either text a novella. It's misleading to have these works on this page, and I'm going to go ahead and take them off. —Preceding unsigned comment added by 24.6.46.247 ( talk) 07:46, 16 December 2008 (UTC)
Just to expand on this, the word novella (plural novelle) in Medieval Italian meant "a tale". So each individual tale in the Decameron is literally a novella, but that word doesn't mean what it does in contemporary English. We have to be careful not to include Medieval/Renaissance novelle in with modern novellas. Protoblast ( talk) 12:05, 15 May 2016 (UTC)
Is there a more objective way to create a list, using reliable sources? Green Cardamom ( talk) 04:18, 22 June 2011 (UTC)
What do you think of the AbeBooks ref? The list is titled "25 Excellent Novellas" and deviates somewhat from the others that describe themselves as a "Best X List". U+003F ? 14:25, 20 May 2016 (UTC)
Looking through this page I saw several books whose classification as novellas surprised me. All of them were in the second section, with the same single source (the Huffington Post one). A brief look at the source makes it clear what the issue is. It says 'we’ve compiled a list of short, classic works, some novels and some novellas, that are all under 200 pages'. Since it explicitly says some of the works listed are not novellas, we shouldn't include a book from that list unless some other source claims it is a novella. So I suggest removing the following, unless anyone wants to argue that some of them are actually novellas: The Awakening; The Big Sleep; Frankenstein; The Great Gatsby; The Hound of the Baskervilles; Northanger Abbey; O Pioneers!; The Picture of Dorian Gray; and The Sorrows of Young Werther. Passing and The Pearl also don't appear on any other list, but the articles on those two books have sources which refer to them as novellas, so I'd suggest keeping them (and citing those sources on this page). Especially Lime ( talk) 14:39, 28 July 2016 (UTC)
This was copied from the main page...-- Tomwsulcer ( talk) 14:29, 3 June 2016 (UTC)
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Not here to start controversy, but I wouldn't consider Brokeback Mountain, The Dead, or Kitchen to be novellas. If I recall correctly both Brokeback and The Dead run about 40 pages, which is essentially the length of most of Alice Munro's stories. Now, I know we can debate all day about what exact length constitutes a novella, but I think we can all agree that Kitchen which is listed at over 200 pages is past that length, yes? ANDROMITUS ( talk) 16:30, 20 August 2019 (UTC)
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According to the definition at novella, A Clockwork Orange is too long to be considered a novella. It is 192 pages whereas novellas are a maximum of around 100. So I have removed it RoyBatty42 04:49, 13 January 2007 (UTC)
The this article is a list of notable novellas, not a list of collections. Hence I removed these two entries:
I moved the The Decameron to the novella series section.
In addition, I broke down the two Stephen King collections ( Different Seasons and Four Past Midnight) to show the actual novellas. HOWEVER - I think this should also be expunged and only the novellas themselves be listed. But that should follow a general purge of this entire article. It supposed to be notable novellas, but seems more like every novella people could come up with. But, I will leave that for further debate. RoyBatty42 04:49, 13 January 2007 (UTC)
Looks as though they may have started in title order; would date order be better ? GrahamHardy ( talk) 14:28, 5 December 2007 (UTC)
On its wikipedia page it calls it a short story, therefore I replaced it with an H. P. Lovecraft novella called The Shadow Over Innsmouth, which is an H. P. Lovecraft fan favorite and has been loosely adapted several times. Sacularamacal13 ( talk) 20:58, 25 August 2008 (UTC)
I think we should be a lot more careful about what is classified as a "novella." Works like "Oroonoko" and "The Decameron" were written far before the idea of a novel was even conceived, and I seriously doubt any literary scholar would call either text a novella. It's misleading to have these works on this page, and I'm going to go ahead and take them off. —Preceding unsigned comment added by 24.6.46.247 ( talk) 07:46, 16 December 2008 (UTC)
Just to expand on this, the word novella (plural novelle) in Medieval Italian meant "a tale". So each individual tale in the Decameron is literally a novella, but that word doesn't mean what it does in contemporary English. We have to be careful not to include Medieval/Renaissance novelle in with modern novellas. Protoblast ( talk) 12:05, 15 May 2016 (UTC)
Is there a more objective way to create a list, using reliable sources? Green Cardamom ( talk) 04:18, 22 June 2011 (UTC)
What do you think of the AbeBooks ref? The list is titled "25 Excellent Novellas" and deviates somewhat from the others that describe themselves as a "Best X List". U+003F ? 14:25, 20 May 2016 (UTC)
Looking through this page I saw several books whose classification as novellas surprised me. All of them were in the second section, with the same single source (the Huffington Post one). A brief look at the source makes it clear what the issue is. It says 'we’ve compiled a list of short, classic works, some novels and some novellas, that are all under 200 pages'. Since it explicitly says some of the works listed are not novellas, we shouldn't include a book from that list unless some other source claims it is a novella. So I suggest removing the following, unless anyone wants to argue that some of them are actually novellas: The Awakening; The Big Sleep; Frankenstein; The Great Gatsby; The Hound of the Baskervilles; Northanger Abbey; O Pioneers!; The Picture of Dorian Gray; and The Sorrows of Young Werther. Passing and The Pearl also don't appear on any other list, but the articles on those two books have sources which refer to them as novellas, so I'd suggest keeping them (and citing those sources on this page). Especially Lime ( talk) 14:39, 28 July 2016 (UTC)
This was copied from the main page...-- Tomwsulcer ( talk) 14:29, 3 June 2016 (UTC)
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Not here to start controversy, but I wouldn't consider Brokeback Mountain, The Dead, or Kitchen to be novellas. If I recall correctly both Brokeback and The Dead run about 40 pages, which is essentially the length of most of Alice Munro's stories. Now, I know we can debate all day about what exact length constitutes a novella, but I think we can all agree that Kitchen which is listed at over 200 pages is past that length, yes? ANDROMITUS ( talk) 16:30, 20 August 2019 (UTC)