Possible Clues:

• Extended short story
• Book of the month on the Spanish and the French
• Type of fiction unfamiliar to the French
• Short work made by star absorbing English lines
• 'Breakfast at Tiffany's,' for one
• Fifteen days, two lines? Author's beginning story
• Literary work produced in late autumn by jazz singer
• Composer and dramatist abridged a piece of fiction
• 'The Time Machine,' e.g
• After 30 days girl produces a short book