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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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