Moby-Dick

or, The Whale

By: Herman Melville

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Paperback | 15 December 2000 | Edition Number 1

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Introduction by Elizabeth Hardwick
Illustrations by Rockwell Kent

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 "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

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Introduction	p. vii
Loomings	p. 1
The Carpet-Bag	p. 9
The Spouter-Inn	p. 16
The Counterpane	p. 36
Breakfast	p. 42
The Street	p. 45
The Chapel	p. 49
The Pulpit	p. 54
The Sermon	p. 58
A Bosom Friend	p. 70
Nightgown	p. 76
Biographical	p. 79
Wheelbarrow	p. 84
Nantucket	p. 91
Chowder	p. 94
The Ship	p. 99
The Ramadan	p. 118
His Mark	p. 126
The Prophet	p. 132
All Astir	p. 137
Going Aboard	p. 141
Merry Christmas	p. 146
The Lee Shore	p. 152
The Advocate	p. 154
Postscript	p. 160
Knights and Squires	p. 162
Knights and Squires	p. 168
Ahab	p. 175
Enter Ahab; To Him, Stubb	p. 180
The Pipe	p. 185
Queen Mab	p. 187
Cetology	p. 190
The Specksynder	p. 208
The Cabin-Table	p. 212
The Mast-Head	p. 220
The Quarter-Deck. Ahab and all	p. 230
Sunset	p. 241
Dusk	p. 244
First Night-Watch	p. 246
Forecastle--Midnight	p. 248
Moby Dick	p. 258
The Whiteness of the Whale	p. 272
Hark!	p. 284
The Chart	p. 286
The Affidavit	p. 293
Surmises	p. 305
The Mat-Maker	p. 310
The First Lowering	p. 314
The Hyena	p. 329
Ahab's Boat and Crew. Fedallah	p. 332
The Spirit-Spout	p. 336
The Pequod Meets the Albatross	p. 343
The Gam	p. 346
The Town-Ho's Story	p. 352
Monstrous Pictures of Whales	p. 379
Less Erroneous Pictures of Whales	p. 386
Of Whales in Paint, in Teeth, andC.	p. 392
Brit	p. 396
Squid	p. 400
The Line	p. 404
Stubb Kills A Whale	p. 409
The Dart	p. 416
The Crotch	p. 419
Stubb's Supper	p. 421
The Whale as a Dish	p. 431
The Shark Massacre	p. 435
Cutting in	p. 438
The Blanket	p. 441
The Funeral	p. 446
The Sphynx	p. 448
The Pequod Meets the Jeroboam. Her Story	p. 452
The Monkey-Rope	p. 461
Stubb and Flask Kill A Right Whale	p. 467
The Sperm Whale's Head	p. 475
The Right Whale's Head	p. 481
The Battering-Ram	p. 486
The Great Heidelburgh Tun	p. 491
Cistern and Buckets	p. 494
The Praire	p. 500
The Nut	p. 504
The Pequod Meets the Virgin	p. 508
The Honor and Glory of Whaling	p. 523
Jonah Historically Regarded	p. 528
Pitchpoling	p. 531
The Fountain	p. 535
The Tail	p. 542
The Grand Armada	p. 549
Schools and Schoolmasters	p. 566
Fast-Fish and Loose-Fish	p. 571
Heads or Tails	p. 577
The Pequod Meets the Rose-Bud	p. 581
Ambergris	p. 590
The Castaway	p. 594
A Squeeze of the Hand	p. 600
The Cassock	p. 605
The Try-Works	p. 607
The Lamp	p. 613
Stowing Down and Clearing Up	p. 614
The Doubloon	p. 618
The Pequod Meets the Samuel Enderby of London	p. 627
The Decanter	p. 637
A Bower in the Arsacides	p. 644
Measurement of the Whale's Skeleton	p. 650
The Fossil Whale	p. 654
Does the Whale Diminish?	p. 659
Ahab's Leg	p. 666
The Carpenter	p. 670
The Deck. Ahab and the Carpenter	p. 674
The Cabin. Ahab and Starbuck	p. 680
Queequeg in His Coffin	p. 684
The Pacific	p. 692
The Blacksmith	p. 694
The Forge	p. 698
The Gilder	p. 703
The Pequod Meets the Bachelor	p. 706
The Dying Whale	p. 710
The Whale Watch	p. 713
The Quadrant	p. 715
The Candles	p. 719
The Deck	p. 728
Midnight, on the Forecastle	p. 729
Midnight, Aloft	p. 732
The Musket	p. 733
The Needle	p. 739
The Log and Line	p. 744
The Life-Buoy	p. 749
Ahab and the Carpenter	p. 754
The Pequod Meets the Rachel	p. 757
The Cabin. Ahab and Pip	p. 763
The Hat	p. 766
The Pequod Meets the Delight	p. 772
The Symphony	p. 774
The Chase--First Day	p. 780
The Chase--Second Day	p. 794
The Chase--Third Day	p. 806
Epilogue	p. 825
Notes	p. 827
Commentary	p. 843
Reading Group Guide	p. 853
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