Moby-Dick

Herman Melville

Courier Corporation, Aug 29, 2003 - Fiction - 452 pages

A masterpiece of storytelling and symbolic realism, this thrilling adventure and epic saga pits Ahab, a brooding sea captain, against the great white whale that crippled him. More than just the tale of a hair-raising voyage, Melville's riveting story passionately probes man's soul.nbsp; A literary classic first published in 1851, Moby-Dicknbsp;represents the ultimate human struggle.

Contents

• Loomings: 14
• The CarpetBag: 18
• The SpouterInn: 21
• The Counterpane: 33
• Breakfast: 36
• The Street: 37
• The Chapel: 39
• The Pulpit: 42
• The Sermon: 44
• A Bosom Friend: 51
• Nightgown: 54
• Biographical: 55
• Wheelbarrow: 57
• Nantucket: 61
• Chowder: 62
• The Ship: 65
• The Ramadan: 76
• His Mark: 81
• The Prophet: 84
• All Astir: 86
• Going Aboard: 88
• Merry Christmas: 91
• The Lee Shore: 94
• The Advocate: 95
• Postscript: 99
• Knights and Squires: 102
• Ahab: 105
• Enter Ahab to Him Stubb: 108
• The Pipe: 110
• Queen Mab: 111
• Cetology: 113
• The Specksynder: 123
• The CabinTable: 125
• The MastHead: 130
• The QuarterDeck: 135
• Sunset: 141
• Dusk: 142
• First NightWatch: 143
• Midnight Forecastle: 144
• Moby Dick: 149
• The Whiteness of the Whale: 157
• Hark: 164
• The Chart: 165
• The Affidavit: 169
• Surmises: 176
• The MatMaker: 178
• The First Lowering: 180
• The Hyena: 189
• Ahabs Boat and Crew Fedallah: 190
• The SpiritSpout: 192
• The Albatross: 195
• The Gam: 197
• The TownHos Story: 200
• Of the Monstrous Pictures of Whales: 217
• Of the Less Erroneous Pictures of Whales and the True Pictures of Whaling Scenes: 220
• Of Whales in Paint in Teeth in Wood in Sheetiron in Stone in Mountains in Stars: 223
• Brit: 225
• Squid: 227
• The Line: 229
• Stubb Kills a Whale: 232
• The Dart: 236
• The Crotch: 237
• Stubbs Supper: 238
• The Whale as a Dish: 245
• The Shark Massacre: 247
• Cutting In: 248
• The Blanket: 250
• The Funeral: 252
• The Sphynx: 253
• The Jeroboams Story: 255
• The MonkeyRope: 260
• Stubb and Flask Kill a Right Whale and Then Have a Talk over Him: 263
• The Sperm Whales HeadContrasted View: 268
• The Right Whales HeadContrasted View: 271
• The BatteringRam: 273
• The Great Heidelburgh Tun: 275
• Cistern and Buckets: 277
• The Prairie: 280
• The Nut: 282
• The Pequod Meets the Virgin: 284
• The Honor and Glory of Whaling: 293
• Jonah Historically Regarded: 295
• Pitchpoling: 297
• The Fountain: 298
• The Tail: 302
• The Grand Armada: 306
• Schools and Schoolmasters: 316
• FastFish and LooseFish: 318
• Heads or Tails: 321
• The Pequod Meets the RoseBud: 324
• Ambergris: 329
• The Castaway: 331
• A Squeeze of the Hand: 334
• The Cassock: 337
• The TryWorks: 338
• The Lamp: 342
• The Doubloon: 344
• Leg and Arm The Pequod of Nantucket Meets the Samuel Enderby of London: 349
• The Decanter: 355
• A Bower in the Arsacides: 358
• Measurement of the Whales Skeleton: 362
• The Fossil Whale: 364
• Does the Whales Magnitude Diminish? Will He Perish?: 367
• Ahabs Leg: 370
• The Carpenter: 372
• Ahab and the Carpenter: 374
• Ahab and Starbuck in the Cabin: 377
• Queequeg in His Coffin: 379
• The Pacific: 384
• The Blacksmith: 385
• The Forge: 387
• The Gilder: 390
• The Pequod Meets the Bachelor: 391
• The Dying Whale: 393
• The Whale Watch: 394
• The Quadrant: 395
• The Candles: 397
• The Deck Towards the End of the First Night Watch: 402
• MidnightThe Forecastle Bulwarks: 403
• Midnight AloftThunder and Lightning: 404
• The Needle: 407
• The Log and Line: 410
• The LifeBuoy: 412
• The Deck: 415
• The Pequod Meets the Rachel: 417
• The Cabin: 419
• The Hat: 421
• The Pequod Meets the Delight: 424
• The Symphony: 425
• The Chase First Day: 428
• The ChaseSecond Day: 436
• The ChaseThird Day: 443
• Epilogue: 452

About the author

Herman Melville (1819–1891) found early success with stories inspired by his adventures in the South Seas. His fortunes declined with the 1851 publication of Moby-Dick, now recognized as a masterpiece but scorned by Melville’s contemporaries. The author was obliged to work as a New York City customs inspector and died in obscurity, three decades before the critical reassessment of his work.

Bibliographic information

• Title: Moby-Dick; Dover Thrift Editions
• Author: Herman Melville
• Edition: illustrated, reprint
• Publisher: Courier Corporation, 2003
• ISBN: 0486432157, 9780486432151
• Length: 452 pages
• Subjects: Fiction / Action & Adventure; Fiction / Classics