Redburn, His First Voyage ; White-jacket, Or, The World in a Man-of-war ; Moby-Dick, Or, The WhaleLiterary Classics of the United States, Incorporated, 1983 - Ahab, Captain (Fictitious character) - 1437 pages Redburn is the story that relates a young man's initiation into the sailors life; White-Jacket is the story that is a semi-autobiographical account of experiences in the U.S. Navy; Moby-Dick, or the whale is the most famous of Melville's works, and tells the story of Ahab, a ship captain that has become obsessed with the hunt for the whale he has named Moby-Dick. |
Contents
CHAPTER I How Wellingborough Redburns Taste for the | 7 |
Redburns Departure from Home | 15 |
CHAPTER 4 How He Disposed of His FowlingPiece | 25 |
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Herman Melville: Redburn, White-Jacket, Moby-Dick (LOA #9) Herman Melville No preview available - 1983 |
Herman Melville: Redburn, White-Jacket, Moby-Dick (LOA #9) Herman Melville No preview available - 1983 |
Herman Melville: Redburn, White-Jacket, Moby-Dick (LOA #9) Herman Melville No preview available - 1983 |
Common terms and phrases
Ahab aloft American arms Articles of War ashore beard Bildad boat bows cabin called Cape Horn Captain Ahab Captain Claret Cetology Chapter chief mate Commodore crew cried Cuticle deck eyes feel fellow flogging forecastle frigate gentlemen Greenland gun-deck guns hammock hand harpooneer Harry head heard heart Jack Chase jacket Jonah Lieutenant live Liverpool looked Lord man-of-war man-of-war's-man marine mast master-at-arms mate mess midshipmen morning Nantucket Navy never Neversink night ocean officers once Peleg perhaps poor port Purser quarter-deck Queequeg Riga rigging rolled rope round sail sailors seamen seemed ship ship's shipmates shore side sight sleep soon sort soul Sperm Whale stand Starbuck steward stood strange Surgeon tell thing thou thought tion touching trowsers turned vessel voyage watch Wellingborough whale White-Jacket whole wind young