short story

literary form which is shorter than a novel and is often characterized by a small number of characters and a unified theme

The short story is a literary genre. It is usually fictional narrative prose and tends to be more concise and to the point than longer works of fiction, such as novellas (in the modern sense of this term) and novels.Short stories have their origins in oral story-telling traditions and the prose anecdote, a swiftly-sketched situation that comes rapidly to its point. With the rise of the comparatively realistic novel, the short story evolved as a miniature, with some of its first perfectly independent examples in the tales of E.T.A. Hoffmann and Anton Chekhov.
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Noun
1. a prose narrative shorter than a novel
(hypernym) story

Synonyms and related words:
Bildungsroman, Gothic novel, comic novel, detective novel, dime novel, dreadful, epistolary novel, erotic novel, historical novel, nouvelle, novel, novel of character, novel of ideas, novel of incident, novel of manners, novel of sensibility, novelette, novella, penny dreadful, picaresque novel, pornographic novel, problem novel, proletarian novel, propaganda novel, psychological novel, regional novel, river novel, roman, roman a clef, roman-fleuve, satirical novel, science-fiction novel, sentimental novel, shilling shocker, short-short, sociological novel, storiette, stream-of-consciousness novel, thesis novel, vignette
  

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