| 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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