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9780142000083

Moby-Dick or, The Whale (Penguin Classics Deluxe Edition)

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  • ISBN13:

    9780142000083

  • ISBN10:

    0142000086

  • Edition: 150th
  • Format: Paperback
  • Copyright: 2001-09-01
  • Publisher: Penguin Books

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Summary

A century and a half after its publication, "Moby-Dick" still stands as a literary classic. A novel of adventure the story of a madman pursuing an unholy war against a creature as vast and dangerous as the sea, it is also an important social commentary populated with several of the most unforgettable characters in literature. This edition features French flaps and deluxe packaging.

Author Biography

Herman Melville was Born in New York, the son of a merchant, and was largely self-educated. He started writing after having first sailed to Liverpool in 1839, where he joined the whaler Acushnet bound for the Pacific. Deserting the ship the following year in the Marquesas, he made his way to Tahiti and Honolulu, returning as an ordinary seaman to Boston, where he was discharged in October 1844. Books based on these adventures, including Moby-Dick, won him immediate success. This literary attention soon faded, however, as his works' complexity increasingly alienated readers. Melville died virtually forgotten in 1891. and it was not until the 1920s that he received recognition as a key figure in American literature Nathaniel Philbrick, A Leading authority on the history of Nantucket, is director of the Egan Institute of Maritime Studies and a research fellow at the Nantucket Historical Association

Table of Contents

Foreword xi
Nathaniel Philbrick
Moby-Dick Etymology xxiii
Extracts xxv
Loomings
3(6)
The Carpet Bag
9(4)
The Spouter-Inn
13(15)
The Counterpane
28(5)
Breakfast
33(3)
The Street
36(3)
The Chapel
39(4)
The Pulpit
43(3)
The Sermon
46(9)
A Bosom Friend
55(4)
Nightgown
59(2)
Biographical
61(3)
Wheelbarrow
64(5)
Nantucket
69(3)
Chowder
72(4)
The Ship
76(14)
The Ramadan
90(6)
His Mark
96(4)
The Prophet
100(4)
All Astir
104(3)
Going Aboard
107(4)
Merry Christmas
111(5)
The Lee Shore
116(2)
The Advocate
118(5)
Postscript
123(1)
Knights and Squires
124(4)
Knights and Squires
128(5)
Ahab
133(4)
Enter Ahab; to him, Stubb
137(4)
The Pipe
141(1)
Queen Mab
142(3)
Cetology
145(13)
The Specksynder
158(3)
The Carbon Table
161(6)
the Mast-Head
167(7)
The Quarter-Deck • Ahab and all
174(8)
Sunset
182(2)
Dusk
184(2)
First Night-Watch
186(1)
Forecastle---Midnight
187(7)
Moby Dick
194(10)
The Whiteness of the Whale
204(9)
Hark!
213(2)
The Chart
215(6)
The Affidavit
221(9)
Surmises
230(3)
The Mat-Maker
233(3)
The First Lowering
236(11)
The Hyena
247(3)
Ahab's Boat and Crew---Fedallab
250(3)
The Spirit-Spout
253(4)
The Pequod meets the Albatross
257(3)
The Gam
260(5)
The Town Ho's Story
265(20)
Monstrous Pictures of Whales
285(5)
Less Erroneous Pictures of Whales
290(4)
Of Whales in Paint, in Teeth, & c.
294(3)
Brit
297(3)
Squid
300(3)
The Line
303(4)
Stubb kills a Whale
307(6)
The Dart
313(2)
The Crotch
315(2)
Stubb's Supper
317(8)
The Whale as a Dish
325(3)
The Shark Massacre
328(2)
Cutting In
330(2)
The Blanket
332(4)
The Funeral
336(1)
The Sphynx
336(5)
The Pequod meets the Feroboam • Her Story
341(7)
The Monkey-rope
348(5)
Stubb & Flask kill a Right Whale
353(6)
The Sperm Whale's Head
359(5)
The Right Whale's Head
364(4)
The Battering-Ram
368(3)
The Great Heidelburgh Tun
371(2)
Cistern and Buckets
373(5)
The Prairie
378(3)
The Nut
381(3)
The Pequod meets the Virgin
384(11)
The Honor and Glory of Whaling
395(4)
Fonah Historically Regarded
399(3)
Pitchpoling
402(3)
The Fountain
405(5)
The Tail
410(5)
The Grand Armada
415(13)
Schools & Schoolmasters
428(4)
Fast Fish and Loose Fish
432(4)
Heads or Tails
436(4)
The Pequod meets the Rose Bud
440(7)
Ambergris
447(3)
The Castaway
450(5)
A Squeenze of the Hand
455(4)
The Cassock
459(2)
The Try-Works
461(5)
The Lamp
466(1)
Stowing Down & Clearing Up
467(3)
The Doubloon
470(6)
The Pequod meets the Samuel Enderby of London
476(7)
The Decanter
483(1)
A Bower in the Arsacides
483(10)
Measurement of the Whale's Skeleton
493(3)
The Fossil Whale
496(4)
Does the Whale Diminish?
500(5)
Ahab's Leg
505(3)
The Carpenter
508(3)
The Deck • Ahab and the Carpenter
511(5)
The Cabin • Ahab and Starbuck
516(3)
Queequeg in his Coffin
519(6)
The Pacific
525(2)
The Blacksmith
527(3)
The Forge
530(4)
The Gilder
534(2)
The Pequod meets the Bachelor
536(3)
The Dying Whale
539(2)
The Whale-Watch
541(2)
The Quadrant
543(3)
The Candles
546(7)
The Deck
553(1)
Midnight, on the Forecastle
554(2)
Midnight, Aloft
556(1)
The Musket
557(4)
The Needle
561(4)
The Log and Line
565(4)
The Life-Buoy
569(4)
Ahab and the Carpenter
573(3)
The Pequod meets the Rachel
576(4)
The Cabin • Ahab and Pip
580(2)
The Hat
582(5)
The Pequod meets the Delight
587(2)
The Symphony
589(5)
The Chase • First Day
594(10)
The Chase • Second Day
604(9)
The Chase • Third Day
613(12)
Epilogue 625(1)
Map and Illustrations 626

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