Short novels

Save to your list Read with a club

The Old Man and the Sea

Ernest Hemingway, 1952

Short read, about 140 pages

An old Cuban fisherman, unlucky for months, rows far out alone.

Start here on Short novels Won the Pulitzer Prize for Fiction in 1953. Source: Wikipedia

Talk about it

  1. What keeps Santiago going after so many days without a fish?
  2. How would you describe the way he thinks about the fish he's hunting?
  3. What does the boy see in the old man that the village doesn't?

Questions we wrote from what the book covers. They don’t give away the plot. How we pick. For more, try our questions for any book.

More short novels

Next shelf Science