What is the difference between a novel and novellas?

Question

What is the difference between a novel and novellas?

Answer 1

A novel is a full length book and a novela is a very short book, too long to be a story, but very short for a book. I think a Novella is a spanish soap-opera on TV.

Answer 2

Length. A novel is long, novellas are shorter (typically 20,000-40,000 words); novelettes are shorter still.

Answer 3

I'm pretty sure a novel is long, and a novellas is a shorter version.

Answer 4

One you read the other is in Spanish!

Answer 5

what's the difference between a novella and a novellalala ?

Answer 6

a novel is like rent and a novellas is some one how writes it

Answer 7

novella is shorter than a novel. 100-150 pages or so is a novella, upwards of that is a novel, but the boundaries aren't fixed, as an author you decide

Answer 8

Length of the story.  A novella is essentially a short novel.

Answer 9

a novella is shorter.

somewhere there must be a definiation in terms of how many words, but i don't remember what it is.

Answer 10

A novella is a written, fictional, prose narrative longer than a novelette but shorter than a novel.

Answer 11

first of all novella is italian!!! it's not spanish! in spanish it's novela... with one L for those who are talking about the difference being one is in english and the other in spanish!

novella is shorter than a novel... that is the difference

Answer 12

a novel is a book you read and novellas are shorter stories than a novel but are longer than short stories.

Answer 13

umm the las

Answer 14

a novel is a long story with a plot and story line, a novella is a short story that doesn't get in super deep like a novel\

hope i helped

Answer 15

A novella is a short novel. usually arount 60-90. Below that is a short story; longer is a novel.

Answer 16

Novela is the spanish workd for TV soap operas