Moby-Dick: or, The WhaleHerman Melville’s masterpiece of obsession and the untamed sea, one of the greatest works of imagination in literary history—featuring an introduction by Andrew Delbanco and notes by Tom Quirk. This edition features the Northwestern-Newberry edition of Melville's text, approved by the Center for Scholarly Editions and the Center for Editions of American Authors of the MLA. Nominated as one of America’s best-loved novels by PBS’s The Great American Read Moby-Dick still stands as an indisputable literary classic. It is the story of an eerily compelling madman pursuing an unholy war against a creature as vast and dangerous and unknowable as the sea itself. But more than just a novel of adventure, more than an encyclopedia of whaling lore and legend, Moby-Dick is a haunting, mesmerizing, and important social commentary populated with several of the most unforgettable and enduring characters in literature. Written with wonderfully redemptive humor, Moby-Dick is a profound and timeless inquiry into character, faith, and the nature of perception. Penguin Classics is the leading publisher of classic literature in the English-speaking world, representing a global bookshelf of the best works throughout history and across genres and disciplines. Readers trust the series to provide authoritative texts enhanced by introductions and notes by distinguished scholars and contemporary authors, as well as up-to-date translations by award-winning translators. |
Contents
Loomings | |
The Carpet | |
The SpouterInn | |
The Counterpane | |
Cutting | |
The Blanket | |
The Funeral | |
The Sphinx | |
The Pequod Meets the Jeroboam Her Story CHAPTER 72 The Monkeyrope | |
Stubb Flask kill a Right Whale CHAPTER 74 The Sperm Whales Heard | |
The Right Whales Head | |
The BatteringRam | |
Breakfast | |
The Street | |
The Chapel | |
The Pulpit | |
The Sermon | |
A Bosom Friend | |
Nightgown | |
Biographical | |
Wheelbarrow | |
Nantucket | |
Chowder | |
The Ship | |
The Ramadan | |
His Mark | |
The Prophet | |
All Astir | |
Going Aboard | |
Merry Christmas | |
The Lee Shore | |
The Advocate | |
Postscript | |
Knights and Squires | |
Knights and Squires | |
Ahab | |
Enter Ahab to him Stubb | |
The Pipe | |
Queen | |
Cetology | |
The Specksynder | |
The Cabin Table | |
The MastHead | |
The QuarterDeck Ahab and all CHAPTER 37 Sunset | |
Dusk | |
First NightWatch | |
ForecastleMidnight CHAPTER 41 Moby Dick | |
The Whiteness of the Whale | |
Hark | |
The Chart | |
The Affidavit | |
Surmises | |
The MatMaker | |
The First Lowering | |
The Hyena | |
Ahabs Boat and CrewFedallah | |
The SpiritSpout | |
The Pequod meets the Albatross CHAPTER 53 The | |
The Town Hos Story | |
Monstrous Pictures of Whales | |
Less Erroneous Pictures of Whales | |
Of Whales in Paint in Teeth | |
Brit | |
Squid | |
The Line | |
Stubb kills a Whale | |
The Dart | |
The Crotch | |
Stubbs Supper | |
The Whale as a Dish | |
The Shark Massacre | |
The Great Heidelburgh | |
Cistern and Buckets | |
The Prairie | |
The | |
The Pequod meets the Virgin | |
The Honor and Glory of Whaling | |
Jonah Historically Regarded | |
Pitchpoling | |
The Fountain | |
The Tail | |
The Grand Armada | |
Schools Schoolmasters | |
Fast Fish and Loose Fish | |
Heads or Tails | |
The Pequod meets the Rose | |
Ambergis | |
The Castaway | |
A Squeeze of the Hand | |
The Cassock | |
The TryWorks | |
The Lamp | |
Stowing Down Clearing Up CHAPTER 99 The Doubloon | |
The Pequod meets the Samuel Enderby of London | |
The Decanter | |
A Bower in the Arsacides | |
Measurement of the Whales Skeleton | |
The Fossil Whale | |
Does the Whale Diminish? | |
Ahabs | |
The Carpenter | |
The Deck Ahab and the Carpenter CHAPTER 109 The Cabin Ahab and Starbuck CHAPTER 110 Queequeg in his Coffin | |
The Pacific | |
The Blacksmith | |
The Forge | |
The Gilder | |
The Pequod meets the Bachelor | |
The Dying Whale | |
The WhaleWatch | |
The Quadrant | |
The Candles | |
The Deck | |
Midnight on the Forecastle CHAPTER 122 Midnight Aloft | |
The Musket | |
The Needle | |
The Log and Line | |
The LifeBuoy | |
Ahab and the Carpenter CHAPTER 128 The Pequod meets the Rachel | |
The Cabin Ahab and Pip CHAPTER 130 The | |
The Pequod meets the Delight | |
The Symphony | |
The Chase First | |
The Chase Second | |
The Chase Third | |
EPILOGUE | |
List of Textual Emendations | |
Explanatory Notes | |
Glossary of Nautical Terms | |
Maps and Illustrations | |
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Common terms and phrases
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