Therefore, using the Handbook's limit for a short story of 15,000 words and Gardner's suggestion that a novella doesn't begin until the 30,000 word mark, I'm going to concern myself with these odd-duck works which fall in between 15,000 and 30,000 words -- according to my own painstaking calculations. I know these word counts mean very little to the typical reader, who will sense that a work is short or long or medium or very long or very short, but who won't think in terms of the actual number of words. So here are some commonly taught novels and a couple of frequently anthologized short stories: To Kill a Mockingbird (104,250 words), The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn(108,575), The Great Gatsby (47,104), Jane Eyre(191,500), "Bartleby, the Scrivener" (13,692), and "The Fall of the House of Usher" (6,710). In Gardner's novella range are books like Heart of Darkness (37,746) and Wide Sargasso Sea(45,499).
Janna and Polort had not been in the city for some time, In fact the last time they were there, It was on a trip of hunting on which they stayed in the city for one night, This however was four years ago, Since then they had not gone to the city, The journey to Readal took exactly one day on the fact they left just shortly after the battle concluded at around midday and they rode until they reached the gates the next day just before midday, As they approached the gates, They could see the news of the attack on Kaserd had reached them, There were 3 rows of four guards lining each side of the road just beyond the gate plus a 2nd Squad commander guarding the gate itself, He walked up to them and shouted "Halt!
This is the best SoL novel I read!The world building and connecting the emotions of the various family members of the MC in combination with the growth of the character is amazing!It is a really unique novel and the first novel I give a complete 5 stars and totally mean it.Because it is absolutely captivating!Keep up the good work, and when it comes to the major events in the future, please try to keep the MC with a healthy and positive mindset, because her past life already was quite depressing enough.Thank you for the consideration.
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