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Moby-Dick

Ay, ay! and I ’ll chase him round Good Hope, and round the Horn, and round the Norway Maelstrom, and round perdition’s flames before I give him up.

—The Quarter-Deck

Herman
Melville

Moby-Dick

Or, The Whale

Herman Melville

The Great American Novel.

Bibliographic Record

Contents

Etymology Extracts

LONDON: CONSTABLE & CO., 1922
NEW YORK: BARTLEBY.COM, 2013

I. Loomings

II. The Carpet-Bag

III. The Spouter-Inn

IV. The Counterpane

VII. The Chapel

VIII. The Pulpit

X. A Bosom Friend

XI. Nightgown

XII. Biographical

XIII. Wheelbarrow

XIV. Nantucket

XV. Chowder

XVI. The Ship

XVII. The Ramadan

XVIII. His Mark

XIX. The Prophet

XX. All Astir

XXI. Going Aboard

XXII. Merry Christmas

XXIII. The Lee Shore

XXIV. The Advocate

XXV. Postscript

XXVI. Knights and Squires

XXVII. Knights and Squires

XXVIII. Ahab

XXIX. Enter Ahab; to Him, Stubb

XXX. The Pipe

XXXI. Queen Mab

XXXII. Cetology

XXXIII. The Specksynder

XXXIV. The Cabin-Table

XXXV. The Mast-Head

XXXVI. The Quarter-Deck

XXXVII. Sunset

XXXVIII. Dusk

XXXIX. First Night-Watch

XL. Midnight, Forecastle

XLI. Moby-Dick

XLII. The Whiteness of the Whale

XLIII. Hark!

XLIV. The Chart

XLV. The Affidavit

XLVI. Surmises

XLVII. The Mat-Maker

XLVIII. The First Lowering

XLIX. The Hyena

L. Ahab’s Boat and Crew. Fedallah

LI. The Spirit-Spout

LII. The Albatross

LIII. The Gam

LIV. The Town-Ho’s Story

LV. Of the Monstrous Pictures of Whales

LVI. Of the Less Erroneous Pictures of Whales, and the True Pictures of Whaling Scenes

LVII. Of Whales in Paint; in Teeth; in Wood; in Sheet-Iron; in Stone; in Mountains; in Stars

LVIII. Brit

LIX. Squid

LX. The Line

LXI. Stubb Kills a Whale

LXII. The Dart

LXIII. The Crotch

LXIV. Stubb’s Supper

LXV. The Whale as a Dish

LXVI. The Shark Massacre

LXVII. Cutting In

LXVIII. The Blanket

LXIX. The Funeral

LXX. The Sphynx

LXXI. The Jeroboam’s Story

LXXII. The Monkey-Rope

LXXIII. Stubb and Flask Kill a Right Whale; and Then Have a Talk Over Him

LXXIV. The Sperm Whale’s Head—Contrasted View

LXXV. The Right Whale’s Head—Contrasted View

LXXVI. The Battering-Ram

LXXVII. The Great Heidelburgh Tun

LXXVIII. Cistern and Buckets

LXXIX. The Prairie

LXXX. The Nut

LXXXI. The Pequod Meets the Virgin

LXXXII. The Honour and Glory of Whaling

LXXXIII. Jonah Historically Regarded

LXXXIV. Pitchpoling

LXXXV. The Fountain

LXXXVI. The Tail

LXXXVII. The Grand Armada

LXXXVIII. Schools and Schoolmasters

LXXXIX. Fast-Fish and Loose-Fish

XC. Heads or Tails

XCI. The Pequod Meets the Rose-Bud

XCII. Ambergris

XCIII. The Castaway

XCIV. A Squeeze of the Hand

XCV. The Cassock

XCVI. The Try-Works

XCVII. The Lamp

XCVIII. Stowing Down and Clearing Up

XCIX. The Doubloon

CI. The Decanter

CII. A Bower in the Arsacides

CIII. Measurement of The Whale’s Skeleton

CIV. The Fossil Whale

CV. Does the Whale’s Magnitude Diminish?—Will He Perish?

CVI. Ahab’s Leg

CVII. The Carpenter

CVIII. Ahab and the Carpenter

CIX. Ahab and Starbuck in the Cabin

CX. Queequeg in His Coffin

CXI. The Pacific

CXII. The Blacksmith

CXIII. The Forge

CXIV. The Gilder

CXV. The Pequod Meets the Bachelor

CXVI. The Dying Whale

CXVII. The Whale-Watch

CXVIII. The Quadrant

CXIX. The Candles

CXX. The Deck Toward the End of the First Night-Watch

CXXI. Midnight—The Forecastle Bulwarks

CXXII. Midnight Aloft—Thunder and Lightning

CXXIII. The Musket

CXXIV. The Needle

CXXV. The Log and Line

CXXVI. The Life-Buoy

CXXVII. The Deck

CXXVIII. The Pequod Meets the Rachel

CXXIX. The Cabin

CXXX. The Hat

CXXXI. The Pequod Meets the Delight

CXXXII. The Symphony

CXXXIII. The Chase—First Day

CXXXIV. The Chase—Second Day

CXXXV. The Chase—Third Day