Moby Dick (Collins Classics)Few literary masterpieces cast quite as awesome a shadow as Herman Melville’s Moby Dick. Captain Ahab’s quest for the white whale is a timeless epic – a thrilling tale of vengeance and obsession, and a searing parable about humanity lost in a universe of moral ambiguity. Inspired by true events, Moby Dick is a work of astonishing psychological depth. It is perhaps the greatest sea story ever told and one of the great classics of literature. ‘Towards thee I roll, thou all-destroying but unconquering whale; to the last I grapple with thee; from hell’s heart I stab at thee; for hate’s sake I spit my last breath at thee...’ |
Contents
The Counterpane | |
Breakfast | |
The Street | |
The Chapel | |
The Pulpit | |
Nantucket | |
Chowder | |
The Ship | |
The Ramadan | |
His Mark | |
The Prophet | |
All Astir | |
Going Aboard | |
The Sermon | |
A Bosom Friend | |
Nightgown | |
Biographical | |
Wheelbarrow | |
Merry Christmas | |
The Lee Shore | |
The Advocate | |
Postscript | |
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Adventures of Huckleberry Ahab’s aloft Bildad boat boat’s bows cabin called Captain Ahab CHAPTER Charles Dickens chase Christopher Marlowe crew cried Ahab d’ye Daggoo darted deck Emily Brontë Expectations by Charles eyes feet Finn by Mark fish fishery Flask Gulliver’s Travels hand harpoon head Huckleberry Finn Island by Robert Jane Austen Jonah Jonathan Swift lance Leviathan living look man’s Mark Twain mast mast-head mate means Moby Dick Nantucket never night NOUN oars Pequod Queequeg Right whale Robert Louis Stevenson rolled round sail Sailor seemed sharks ship ship’s side sight sort soul sperm sperm-whale spout standing Starbuck Steelkilt stern strange Stubb tail Tashtego tell thee there’s thing thou thought Travels by Jonathan Treasure Island turned Twist by Charles VERB voyage whalemen What’s white whale William Wordsworth