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Of course, Mores, the attraction of the length of a work as much as its genre is down to reader preference. Publishers and printers, sadly, often weigh up other considerations that have little to do with quality.
Rather than scratch my own head (when it's supposed to be my turn in the kitchen), I just lifted this short list of novellas that certainly hit the spot just to show that works falling between the short story and the 'full' novel do have reader appeal (there are hundreds more):
Aphra Behn's (1688) Oroonoko, Charles Dickens's (1843) A Christmas Carol, Robert Louis Stevenson's (1886) Dr Jekyll and Mr Hyde, Kate Chopin's (1899) The Awakening, Anton Chekhov's (1900) In the ravine, Joseph Conrad's (1902) Heart of darkness, Thomas Mann's (1913) Death in Venice, Franz Kafka's (1915) Metamorphosis, Ernest Hemingway's (1952) The old man and the sea, George Orwell's (1945) Animal Farm, Muriel Spark's (1962) The prime of Miss Jean Brodie.
Cheers. Neil
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