Breakfast at Tiffany's (novella) Breakfast at Tiffany's (novella) Breakfast at Tiffany's is a novella by Truman Capote published in 1958. In it, a contemporary writer recalls his early days in New York City, when he makes the acquaintance of his remarkable neighbor, Holly Golightly, who is one of Capote's best-known creations. In autumn 1943, the unnamed narrator befriends Holly Golightly. The two are tenants in a brownstone apartment in Manhattan's Upper East Side. Holly (age 18–19) is a country girl turned New York café society girl. As such, she has no job and lives by socializing with wealthy men, who take her to clubs
Maid Marian (novella) publication of the novella until 1822. As a result of the delay, it was taken for an imitation of "Ivanhoe" although its composition had, in fact, preceded Scott's novel. It was soon dramatised with great success by James Planché, and was translated into French and German. Maid Marian (novella) Maid Marian is a novella by Thomas Love Peacock, his fourth long work of fiction, published in 1822. Peacock wrote all but the last three chapters of "Maid Marian" at Marlow in 1818. He wrote to Percy Bysshe Shelley that he did not find "this brilliant summer", of 1818, "very favourable