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Moby-Dick

or the Whale

By: Herman Melville, Rockwell Kent (Illustrator)

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Paperback | 1 February 1981 | Edition Number 1

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704 Pages

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3 - 5

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P - 2

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17 x 10 x 3.5

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Nominated as one of America’s best-loved novels by PBS’s The Great American Read

First published in 1851, Herman Melville’s masterpiece is, in Elizabeth Hardwick’s words, “the greatest novel in American literature.” The saga of Captain Ahab and his monomaniacal pursuit of the white whale remains a peerless adventure story but one full of mythic grandeur, poetic majesty, and symbolic power. Filtered through the consciousness of the novel’s narrator, Ishmael, Moby-Dick draws us into a universe full of fascinating characters and stories, from the noble cannibal Queequeg to the natural history of whales, while reaching existential depths that excite debate and contemplation to this day.

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"Responsive to the shaping forces of his age as only men of passionate imagination are, even Melville can hardly have been fully aware of how symbolical an American hero he had fashioned in Ahab." --F. O. Matthiessen

"From the Trade Paperback edition."

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Introduction	p. xvi
Etymology	p. xxvi
Extracts	p. 1
Loomings	p. 17
The Carpet-Bag	p. 22
The Spouter-Inn	p. 26
The Counterpane	p. 41
Breakfast	p. 45
The Street	p. 47
The Chapel	p. 50
The Pulpit	p. 53
The Sermon	p. 56
A Bosom Friend	p. 65
Nightgown	p. 69
Biographical	p. 71
Wheelbarrow	p. 73
Nantucket	p. 78
Chowder	p. 80
The Ship	p. 83
The Ramadan	p. 97
His Mark	p. 103
The Prophet	p. 107
All Astir	p. 111
Going Aboard	p. 113
Merry Christmas	p. 117
The Lee Shore	p. 121
The Advocate	p. 122
Postscript	p. 127
Knights and Squires	p. 128
Knights and Squires	p. 131
Ahab	p. 136
Enter Ahab; to Him, Stubb	p. 139
The Pipe	p. 142
Queen Mab	p. 143
Cetology	p. 146
The Specksynder	p. 159
The Cabin-Table	p. 162
The Mast-Head	p. 168
The Quarter-Deck, Ahab and All	p. 174
Sunset	p. 182
Dusk	p. 184
First Night-Watch	p. 185
Midnight, Forecastle	p. 186
Moby-Dick	p. 193
The Whiteness of the Whale	p. 203
Hark!	p. 212
The Chart	p. 213
The Affidavit	p. 218
Surmises	p. 227
The Mat-Maker	p. 230
The First Lowering	p. 233
The Hyena	p. 243
Ahab's Boat and Crew. Fedallah	p. 245
The Spirit-Spout	p. 248
The Albatross	p. 252
The Gam	p. 254
The Town-Ho's Story	p. 259
Of the Monstrous Pictures of Whales	p. 279
Of the Less Erroneous Pictures of Whales, etc.	p. 284
Of Whales in Paint; in Teeth; etc.	p. 288
Brit	p. 290
Squid	p. 293
The Line	p. 296
Stubb Kills a Whale	p. 300
The Dart	p. 305
The Crotch	p. 306
Stubb's Supper	p. 308
The Whale As a Dish	p. 316
The Shark Massacre	p. 318
Cutting In	p. 320
The Blanket	p. 322
The Funeral	p. 325
The Sphynx	p. 327
The Jeroboam's Story	p. 329
The Monkey-Rope	p. 335
Stubb and Flask Kill a Right Whale, etc.	p. 340
The Sperm Whale's Head-Contrasted View	p. 345
The Right Whale's Head-Contrasted View	p. 350
The Battering-Ram	p. 353
The Great Heidelburgh Tun	p. 355
Cistern and Buckets	p. 357
The Praire	p. 361
The Nut	p. 364
The Pequod Meets the Virgin	p. 366
The Honor and Glory of Whaling	p. 378
Jonah Historically Regarded	p. 381
Pitchpoling	p. 383
The Fountain	p. 385
The Tail	p. 391
The Grand Armada	p. 395
Schools and Schoolmasters	p. 408
Fast-Fish and Loose-Fish	p. 411
Heads or Tails	p. 415
The Pequod Meets the Rose-Bud	p. 418
Ambergris	p. 425
The Castaway	p. 428
A Squeeze of the Hand	p. 432
The Cassock	p. 436
The Try-Works	p. 437
The Lamp	p. 442
Stowing Down and Clearing Up	p. 443
The Doubloon	p. 446
The Pequod Meets the Samuel Enderby of London	p. 452
The Decanter	p. 459
A Bower in the Arsacides	p. 464
Measurement of the Whale's Skeleton	p. 468
The Fossil Whale	p. 471
Does the Whale's Magnitude Diminish?	p. 475
Ahab's Leg	p. 479
The Carpenter	p. 482
Ahab and the Carpenter	p. 485
Ahab and Starbuck in the Cabin	p. 489
Queequeg in His Coffin	p. 492
The Pacific	p. 498
The Blacksmith	p. 499
The Forge	p. 502
The Gilder	p. 505
The Pequod Meets the Bachelor	p. 507
The Dying Whale	p. 510
The Whale Watch	p. 512
The Quadrant	p. 513
The Candles	p. 516
The Deck	p. 523
Midnight-The Forecastle Bulwarks	p. 524
Midnight Aloft	p. 526
The Musket	p. 526
The Needle	p. 530
The Log and Line	p. 533
The Life-Buoy	p. 536
The Deck	p. 540
The Pequod Meets the Rachel	p. 542
The Cabin	p. 546
The Hat	p. 548
The Pequod Meets the Delight	p. 552
The Symphony	p. 554
The Chase-First Day	p. 558
The Chase-Second Day	p. 567
The Chase-Third Day	p. 576
Epilogue	p. 588
Criticism and Context
Herman Melville: A Biographical Note	p. 590
Letters	p. 597
Moby-Dick and Its Contemporary Reviews	p. 607
Moby-Dick and Its Modern Critics	p. 619
from Herman Melville	p. 619
"Seven Moby-Dicks"	p. 629
"The Tragic Meaning of Moby-Dick"	p. 645
"Ishmael"	p. 649
from "Herman Melville's Moby-Dick"	p. 654
"The Fire Symbolism in Moby-Dick"	p. 662
Recommended Reading	p. 668
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