英语词汇novella的起源、历史背景-英语词源词典

novella. A novella is most simply a tale of the type Boccaccio wrote, or it can be a short story. But many writers don’t like the name, or label, novella. “I beg the reader one gentle favor for which he may be sure of my perpetual gratitude,” wrote Kath- erine Anne Porter in the introduction to her Collected Stories. “Please do not call my short novels Novelettes, or even worse, Novellas. Novelette is classical usage for a trivial, dime-store sort of thing. Novella is a slack, boneless, affected word that we do not need to describe anything. Please call my works by their right name: we have four that cover every division: short sto- ries, long stories, short novels, novels.”

词汇	novella
词源	novella. A novella is most simply a tale of the type Boccaccio wrote, or it can be a short story. But many writers don’t like the name, or label, novella. “I beg the reader one gentle favor for which he may be sure of my perpetual gratitude,” wrote Kath- erine Anne Porter in the introduction to her Collected Stories. “Please do not call my short novels Novelettes, or even worse, Novellas. Novelette is classical usage for a trivial, dime-store sort of thing. Novella is a slack, boneless, affected word that we do not need to describe anything. Please call my works by their right name: we have four that cover every division: short sto- ries, long stories, short novels, novels.”
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