In 1863, he set out to write a short novel about a political dissident returning from exile in Siberia.

1863年，托尔斯泰本来打算 写一本关于政见不合的短篇小说，此时他刚从西伯利亚流亡回来。

The longer spelling – l-e-t-t-e – only forms a diminutive in a few English words, like novelette, a short novel.

较长的拼写 l-e-t-t-e 只在一些英语单词中构成小量化词，如novelette，中篇小说。

A short story, though, is not just a short novel.

然而，短篇小说不仅仅是一部短篇小说。

Mulk Raj Anand came under when constructing the imaginative world of this short novel.

Mulk Raj Anand 在构建这部短篇小说的想象世界时受到了影响。

The holiday got another push in 1843, when the great British writer, Charles Dickens, published his short novel, A Christmas Carol.

这个节日在1843年又有了新的发展，当时伟大的英国作家查尔斯·狄更斯，发表了他的短篇小说《圣诞颂歌》。

It's a very short novel, if you looking for a short, not too difficult novel, that's a good one.

这是一本很短的小说， 如果你想找一本短小的， 不太难的小说，那是一本好小说。

A Christmas Carol is a famous short novel written by Charles Dickens.

《圣诞颂歌》是查尔斯·狄更斯写的一部著名的短片小说。

The Road is a short novel, and it is written in a " spare" (spare) or simple but beautiful way.

The Road是一部短篇小说，写得“省” （spare）或简单而优美。

Carrie, as I've already noted, is a short novel about a picked-on girl who discovers a telekinetic ability within herself—she can move objects by thinking about them.

我前面提过的《魔女嘉丽》是一部篇幅较短的长篇小说，说的是一个老被人取笑的女孩，发现自己有心灵致动的超能力——她可以通过集中意念来移动物体。

In a short novel of a hundred pages, Orwell describes how the animals take over a poorly run farm by overthrowing the human farmer in a revolution led by the pigs Snowball and Napoleon.

在一部一百页的短篇小说中，奥威尔描述了动物们如何在猪雪球和拿破仑领导的革命中推翻人类农民， 从而接管了经营不善的农场。