"Novelette" Quotes from Famous Books
 ... and of touch, gave considerable promise. She soon turned, however, to the rapid production of stories for girls, and, with the exception of the cheery tale entitled Work (1873), and the anonymous novelette A Modern Mephistopheles (1877), which attracted little notice, she did not return to the more ambitious fields of the novelist. Her success dated from the appearance of the first series of Little Women: or Meg, Jo, Beth and Amy (1868), in which, with unfailing humour, freshness ...
— Project Gutenberg Encyclopedia
... HOUSE: From the Russian of Feodor Sologub. A novelette and ten striking stories. Second ...
— The Shield • Various
... Cervantes' Exemplary Novels; seasoned with personal and other anecdotes, so that the whole number of separate articles may exceed four-score. Of these a few are interesting attempts at the historical novel or novelette—short sketches of Mary Queen of Scots (very sympathetic and evidently French in origin from the phrase "a temple which was formerly a church"), Jane Shore (an exquisitely absurd piece of eighteenth-century ...
— The English Novel • George Saintsbury
... the English Humourists of the Eighteenth Century. With the success of these came the prompting for a new work of fiction,—not to be contemporary, and not to be issued in parts. His studies for the Humourists had saturated him with the spirit of a time to which—witness his novelette of Barry Lyndon—he had always been attracted; and when Mr. George Smith called on him with a proposal that he should write a new story for L1000, he was already well in hand with Esmond,—an effort in which, if it were not possible to invent new puppets, it ...
— De Libris: Prose and Verse • Austin Dobson
... I was doing honorable things in a foolish way. With no knowledge of how to publish my work I was bringing out a problem novel here, a realistic novelette there and a book of short stories in a third place, all to the effect of confusing my public and disgusting the book-seller. But then, no one in those days had any very clear notion of how to launch a young writer, and so (as I had entered the literary field by way of ...
— A Son of the Middle Border • Hamlin Garland
... which must be well known to these spy-informed people of St. Petersburg; so I am immune. The worst they could do would be to order me out of the country, but even that is unthinkable. If any one attempted to interfere with me, I have only to act the hero of the penny novelette, draw myself up to my full height, which, as you know, is not that of a pigmy, fold my arms across my manly chest, cry, 'Ha, ha!' and sing 'Rule Britannia,' whereupon the villains would wilt and withdraw. But Jack has no such security. He is a Russian subject, and, prince or ...
— A Rock in the Baltic • Robert Barr |
