Moby Dick: or, The WhaleIshmael joined the crew of the whaling ship Pequod expecting a simple whaling voyage. Little did he know that the captain of the ship is thirsty for revenge against Moby Dick, the great white whale responsible for his missing leg. As the crew sails the ocean, Captain Ahab searches unceasingly for Moby Dick, ignoring warnings and prophecies of doom. When the white whale is finally spotted, a battle ensues that makes this novel by author Herman Melville one of the most epic sea stories of all time. This is an unabridged version of the American classic, which was first published in 1851. |
Contents
Chapter 1 Loomings | 1 |
Chapter 2 The CarpetBag | 8 |
Chapter 3 The SpouterInn | 13 |
Chapter 4 The Counterpane | 30 |
Chapter 5 Breakfast | 35 |
Chapter 6 The Street | 38 |
Chapter 7 The Chapel | 41 |
Chapter 8 The Pulpit | 45 |
Chapter 70 The Sphynx | 389 |
Chapter 71 The Jeroboams Story | 392 |
Chapter 72 The MonkeyRope | 400 |
Chapter 73 Stubb And Flask Kill A Right Whale And Then Have A Talk Over Him | 406 |
Chapter 74 The Sperm Whales headContrasted View | 413 |
Chapter 75 The Right Whales HeadContrasted View | 418 |
Chapter 76 The BatteringRam | 422 |
Chapter 77 The Great Heidelburgh Tun | 425 |
Chapter 9 The Sermon | 48 |
Chapter 10 A Bosom Friend | 59 |
Chapter 11 Nightgown | 64 |
Chapter 12 Biographical | 67 |
Chapter 13 Wheelbarrow | 70 |
Chapter 14 Nantucket | 76 |
Chapter 15 Chowder | 79 |
Chapter 16 The Ship | 83 |
Chapter 17 The Ramadan | 100 |
Chapter 18 His Mark | 107 |
Chapter 19 The Prophet | 112 |
Chapter 20 All Astir | 116 |
Chapter 21 Going Aboard | 119 |
Chapter 22 Merry Christmas | 123 |
Chapter 23 The Lee Shore | 129 |
Chapter 24 The Advocate | 131 |
Chapter 25 Postscript | 137 |
Chapter 26 Knights And Squires | 139 |
Chapter 27 Knights And Squires | 143 |
Chapter 28 Ahab | 149 |
Chapter 29 Enter Ahab To Him Stubb | 154 |
Chapter 30 The Pipe | 158 |
Chapter 31 Queen Mab | 160 |
Chapter 32 Cetology | 163 |
Chapter 33 The Specksnyder | 179 |
Chapter 34 The CabinTable | 183 |
Chapter 35 The MastHead | 190 |
Chapter 36 The QuarterDeck | 198 |
Chapter 37 Sunset | 207 |
Chapter 38 Dusk | 209 |
Chapter 39 First Night Watch | 211 |
Chapter 40 Midnight Forecastle | 213 |
Chapter 41 Moby Dick | 219 |
Chapter 42 The Whiteness Of The Whale | 231 |
Chapter 43 Hark | 242 |
Chapter 44 The Chart | 244 |
Chapter 45 The Affidavit | 251 |
Chapter 46 Surmises | 262 |
Chapter 47 The MatMaker | 266 |
Chapter 48 The First Lowering | 270 |
Chapter 49 The Hyena | 282 |
Chapter 50 Ahabs Boat And Crew Fedallah | 285 |
Chapter 51 The SpiritSpout | 289 |
Chapter 52 The Albatross | 294 |
Chapter 53 The Gam | 297 |
Chapter 54 The TownHos Story | 302 |
Chapter 55 Of The Monstrous Pictures Of Whales | 326 |
Chapter 56 Of The Less Erroneous Pictures Of Whales And The True Pictures Of Whaling Scenes | 332 |
Chapter 57 Of Whales In Paint In Teeth In Wood In SheetIron In Stone In Mountains In Stars | 337 |
Chapter 58 Brit | 341 |
Chapter 59 Squid | 345 |
Chapter 60 The Line | 349 |
Chapter 61 Stubb Kills A Whale | 354 |
Chapter 62 The Dart | 360 |
Chapter 63 The Crotch | 362 |
Chapter 64 Stubbs Supper | 364 |
Chapter 65 The Whale As A Dish | 373 |
Chapter 66The Shark Massacre | 377 |
Chapter 67 Cutting In | 380 |
Chapter 68 The Blanket | 383 |
Chapter 69 The Funeral | 387 |
Chapter 78 Cistern And Buckets | 428 |
Chapter 79 The Prairie | 434 |
Chapter 80 The Nut | 437 |
Chapter 81 The Pequod Meets The Virgin | 440 |
Chapter 82 The Honour And Glory Of Whaling | 453 |
Chapter 83 Jonah Historically Regarded | 457 |
Chapter 84 Pitchpoling | 460 |
Chapter 85 The Fountain | 463 |
Chapter 86 The Tail | 469 |
Chapter 87 The Grand Armada | 475 |
Chapter 88 Schools And Schoolmasters | 490 |
Chapter 89 FastFish And LooseFish | 494 |
Chapter 90 Heads Or Tails | 499 |
Chapter 91 The Pequod Meets The RoseBud | 503 |
Chapter 92 Ambergris | 511 |
Chapter 93 The Castaway | 515 |
Chapter 94 A Squeeze Of The Hand | 520 |
Chapter 95 The Cassock | 524 |
Chapter 96 The TryWorks | 526 |
Chapter 97 The Lamp | 532 |
Chapter 98 Stowing Down And Cleaning Up | 533 |
Chapter 99 The Doubloon | 537 |
Chapter 100 Leg And Arm | 544 |
Chapter 101 The Decanter | 553 |
Chapter 102 A Bower In The Arsacides | 559 |
Chapter 103 Measurement Of The Whales Skeleton | 564 |
Chapter 104 The Fossil Whale | 567 |
Chapter 105 Does The Whales Magnitude Diminish?Will He Perish? | 572 |
Chapter 106 Ahabs Leg | 577 |
Chapter 107 The Carpenter | 581 |
Chapter 108 Ahab And The Carpenter | 585 |
Chapter 109 Ahab And Starbuck In The Cabin | 591 |
Chapter 110 Queequeg In His Coffin | 595 |
Chapter 111 The Pacific | 602 |
Chapter 112 The Blacksmith | 604 |
Chapter 113 The Forge | 608 |
Chapter 114 The Glider | 613 |
Chapter 115 The Pequod Meets The Bachelor | 616 |
Chapter 116 The Dying Whale | 619 |
Chapter 117 The Whale Watch | 621 |
Chapter 118The Quadrant | 623 |
Chapter 119 The Candles | 626 |
Chapter 120 The Deck Towards The End Of The First Night Watch | 634 |
Chapter 121 MidnightThe Forecastle Bulwarks | 635 |
Chapter 122 Midnight AloftThunder And Lightning | 638 |
Chapter 123 The Musket | 639 |
Chapter 124 The Needle | 643 |
Chapter 125 The Log And Line | 647 |
Chapter 126 The LifeBuoy | 651 |
Chapter 127 The Deck | 656 |
Chapter 128 The Pequod Meets The Rachel | 659 |
Chapter 129 The Cabin | 664 |
Chapter 130 The Hat | 666 |
Chapter 131 The Pequod Meets The Delight | 672 |
Chapter 132 The Symphony | 674 |
Chapter 133 The ChaseFirst Day | 679 |
Chapter 134 The ChaseSecond Day | 690 |
Chapter 135 The ChaseThird Day | 701 |
Epilogue | 715 |
Back Cover | 718 |
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Common terms and phrases
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