Moby Dick“Call me Ishmael.” Thus begins one of the most famous journeys in literature—the voyage of the whaling ship Pequod and its embattled, monomaniacal Captain Ahab. Ishmael quickly learns that the Pequod’s captain sails for revenge against the elusive Moby Dick, a sperm whale with a snow-white hump and mottled skin that destroyed Ahab’s former vessel and left him crippled. As the Pequod sails deeper through the nights and into the sea, the divisions between man and nature begin to blur—so do the lines between good and evil, as the fates of the ship’s crewmen become increasingly unclear.... Melville’s classic tale of obsession and the sea, one of the most important and enduring masterworks of nineteenth-century literature, Moby Dick is a riveting drama, exploring rage, hope, destiny, and the deepest questions of moral truth. |
Contents
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Nantucket | 65 |
The Ship | 71 |
Cistern and Buckets | 351 |
The Praire | 355 |
The Nut | 358 |
The Pequod Meets the Virgin | 361 |
The Honour and Glory of Whaling | 371 |
Jonah Historically Regarded | 374 |
84 | 377 |
The Fountain | 380 |
The Ramadan | 84 |
His Mark | 90 |
All Astir | 98 |
Going Aboard | 101 |
The Lee Shore | 110 |
Postscript | 117 |
Ahab | 126 |
The Pipe | 133 |
The Specksynder | 150 |
The MastHead | 158 |
The QuarterDeck | 164 |
Sunset | 171 |
Midnight Forecastle | 177 |
Iceland Sailor | 178 |
Moby Dick | 184 |
Hark | 202 |
Surmises | 218 |
The Hyena | 234 |
The TownHos Story | 250 |
Of the Less Erroneous Pictures of Whales and the True Pictures of Whaling Scenes | 274 |
Of Whales in Paint in Teeth in Wood in SheetIron in Stone in Mountains in Stars | 278 |
Brit | 281 |
Squid | 284 |
The Line | 287 |
Stubb Kills a Whale | 291 |
The Dart | 296 |
The Crotch | 298 |
Stubbs Supper | 300 |
65 | 307 |
The Shark Massacre | 310 |
Cutting In | 312 |
The Blanket | 314 |
The Funeral | 317 |
The Sphynx | 319 |
71 | 322 |
The MonkeyRope | 328 |
Stubb and Flask Kill a Right Whale and Then Have a Talk Over Him | 333 |
The Sperm Whales HeadContrasted View | 339 |
The Right Whales HeadContrasted View | 343 |
The BatteringRam | 346 |
The Great Heidelburgh Tun | 349 |
The Tail | 385 |
The Grand Armada | 390 |
Schools and Schoolmasters | 402 |
FastFish and LooseFish | 406 |
90 | 410 |
The Pequod Meets the RoseBud | 413 |
Ambergris | 420 |
The Castaway | 423 |
94 | 427 |
The Cassock | 431 |
The TryWorks | 433 |
The Lamp | 438 |
Stowing Down and Clearing | 439 |
The Doubloon | 442 |
Leg and Arm | 448 |
A Bower in the Arsacides | 460 |
The Fossil Whale | 467 |
Ahabs | 475 |
Ahab and the Carpenter | 481 |
Queequeg in His Coffin | 488 |
The Pacific | 494 |
The Gilder | 503 |
The Whale Watch | 510 |
The Deck Towards the End | 522 |
MidnightThe Forecastle Bulwarks | 523 |
Midnight AloftThunder and Lightning | 525 |
The Musket | 526 |
The Needle | 530 |
The Log and Line | 534 |
The LifeBuoy | 537 |
The Deck | 541 |
The Pequod Meets the Rachel | 544 |
The Cabin | 548 |
The Hat | 550 |
The Pequod Meets the Delight | 555 |
The Symphony | 557 |
The ChaseFirst Day | 561 |
The ChaseSecond Day | 570 |
The ChaseThird Day | 578 |
Epilogue | 589 |