Word Count Definitions of Short Story vs Novella vs Novel

[Anonymous No.15056098]

Any objection to these definitions re: Short Story vs Novella vs Novel?

>Short Story
Typically about 5,000 words, but definitely less than 15,000 words

>Novella
Typically about 25,000 words, but definitely between 15,000 and 40,000 words

>Novel
Typically about 125,000 words, but definitely more than 40,000 words

[Anonymous No.15056174]

>>15056098
"NOVELLAS" given the above definition:

Albert Camus -- The Stranger
Charles Dickens -- A Christmas Carol
Edith Wharton -- Ethan Frome
Ernest Hemingway -- The Old Man and the Sea
Franz Kafka -- The Metamorphosis
George Eliot -- Silas Marner
George Orwell -- Animal Farm
H. G. Wells -- The Time Machine
H. G. Wells -- The War of the Worlds
Henry James -- Daisy Miller
Henry James -- The Aspern Papers
Henry James -- The Turn of the Screw
Herman Melville -- Billy Budd
John Steinbeck -- Of Mice and Men
John Steinbeck -- The Pearl
Joseph Conrad -- Heart of Darkness
Leo Tolstoy -- The Death of Ivan Ilyich
Robert Louis Stevenson -- Strange Case of Dr Jekyll and Mr Hyde
Shirley Jackson -- We Have Always Lived in the Castle
Thomas Mann -- Death in Venice
Voltaire -- Candide

[Anonymous No.15057111]

>>15056098
It is not that rigid, it depends on what genre you're writing.