Moby-Dick: A Penguin Enriched eBook Classic

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Penguin, Jun 16, 2009 - Fiction - 720 pages
This American masterpiece is a profound inquiry into character, faith, and the nature of perception and is now available in a Penguin enriched eBook classic.

 
 

Contents

MOBYDICK
xi
ETYMOLOGY
xxxvii
Extracts
xxxix
Loomings
3
The Carpet Bag
9
The SpouterInn
13
The Counterpane
28
Breakfast
33
The Funeral
336
The Sphynx
338
The Pequod meets the Jeroboam Her Story
341
The Monkeyrope
348
Stubb Flask kill a Right Whale
353
The Sperm Whales Head
359
The Right Whales Head
364
The BatteringRam
368

The Street
36
The Chapel
39
The Pulpit
43
The Sermon
46
A Bosom Friend
55
Nightgown
59
Biographical
61
Wheelbarrow
64
Nantucket
69
Chowder
72
The Ship
76
The Ramadan
90
His Mark
96
The Prophet
100
All Astir
104
Going Aboard
107
Merry Christmas
111
The Lee Shore
116
The Advocate
118
Postscript
123
Knights and Squires
124
Knights and Squires
128
Ahab
133
Enter Abab to him Stubb
137
The Pipe
141
Queen Mab
142
Cetology
145
The Specksynder
158
The Cabin Table
161
The MastHead
167
The QuarterDeck Ahab and all
174
Sunset
182
Dusk
184
First NightWatch
186
ForecastleMidnight
187
Moby Dick
194
The Whiteness of the Whale
204
Hark
213
The Chart
215
The Affidavit
221
Surmises
230
The MatMaker
233
The First Lowering
236
The Hyena
247
Ahabs Boat and CrewFedallah
250
The SpiritSpout
253
The Pequod meets the Albatross
257
The Gam
260
The Town Hos Story
265
Monstrous Pictures of Whales
285
Less Erroneous Pictures of Whales
290
Of Whales in Paint in Teeth c
294
Brit
297
Squid
300
The Line
303
Stubb kills a Whale
307
The Dart
313
The Crotch
315
Stubbs Supper
317
The Whale as a Dish
325
The Shark Massacre
328
Cutting In
330
The Blanket
332
The Great Heidelburgh Tun
371
Cistern and Buckets
373
The Prairie
378
The Nut
381
The Pequod meets the Virgin
384
The Honor and Glory of Whaling
395
Jonah Historically Regarded
399
Pitchpoling
402
The Fountain
405
The Tail
410
The Grand Armada
415
SchoolsSchoolmasters
428
Fast Fish and Loose Fish
432
Heads or Tails
436
The Pequod meets the Rose Bud
440
Ambergris
447
The Castaway
450
A Squeeze of the Hand
455
The Cassock
459
The TryWorks
461
The Lamp
466
Stowing Down Clearing Up
467
The Doubloon
470
The Pequod meets the Samuel Enderby of London
476
The Decanter
483
A Bower in the Arsacides
488
Measurement of the Whales Skeleton
493
The Fossil Whale
496
Does the Whale Diminish?
500
Ahabs Leg
505
The Carpenter
508
The Deck Ahab and the Carpenter
511
The Cabin Ahab and Starbuck
516
Queequeg in his Coffin
519
The Pacific
525
The Blacksmith
527
The Forge
530
The Gilder
534
The Pequod meets the Bachelor
536
The Dying Whale
539
The WhaleWatch
541
The Quadrant
543
The Candles
546
The Deck
553
Midnight on the Forecastle
554
Midnight Aloft
556
The Musket
557
The Needle
561
The Log and Line
565
The LifeBuoy
569
Ahab and the Carpenter
573
The Pequod meets the Rachel
576
The Cabin Ahab and Pip
580
The Hat
582
The Pequod meets the Delight
587
The Symphony
589
The Chase First
594
The Chase
604
CHAPTER 135
613
EPILOGUE
625
GLOSSARY OF NAUTICAL TERMS
651
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About the author (2009)

Elizabeth Hardwick (1916–2007) is the author of many books and essays, including Herman Melville (Penguin Lives), American Fictions, and Seduction and Betrayal: Women and Literature.

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