Examples of using "повесть" in a sentence and their english translations:
Tom is reading a short story.
I tried writing a novel.
He read a most interesting novel yesterday.
That is not what the narrative is about.
He read the story five times over.
"The Old Man and the Sea" is a novel by Hemingway.
I tried writing a novel.
Joseph Conrad wrote "Heart of Darkness" in part based on his personal experience in Belgian Congo.
Adam Mickiewicz’s narrative “Pan Tadeusz”, which paints the nature, customs, and manners of the Belarusian landowners of Napoleon’s time, is, as of 1859, already being translated into Russian.