Herman Melville: Redburn, White-Jacket, Moby-Dick (LOA #9)Well over a century after its publication, 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. LIBRARY OF AMERICA is an independent nonprofit cultural organization founded in 1979 to preserve our nation’s literary heritage by publishing, and keeping permanently in print, America’s best and most significant writing. The Library of America series includes more than 300 volumes to date, authoritative editions that average 1,000 pages in length, feature cloth covers, sewn bindings, and ribbon markers, and are printed on premium acid-free paper that will last for centuries. |
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Contents
How Wellingborough Redburns Taste for the | 7 |
CHAPTER 2 Redburns Departure from Home | 15 |
How He Disposed of His FowlingPiece | 25 |
He Is Initiated in the Business of Cleaning | 35 |
He Is Put into the Larboard Watch Gets Sea | 46 |
The Sailors Becoming a Little Social Redburn | 53 |
CHAPTER 10 He Is Very Much Frightened the Sailors Abuse | 59 |
He Gives Some Account of One of His Shipmates | 66 |
The Hospital in a Manofwar | 693 |
Dismal Times in the Mess | 700 |
The Last Stitch | 706 |
A Manofwar College | 712 |
The Rebels brought to the Mast | 730 |
Flogging through the Fleet | 737 |
The Manning of Navies | 745 |
ETYMOLOGY | 780 |
He Has a Fine Day at Sea Begins to Like | 74 |
The Melancholy State of His Wardrobe | 85 |
At Dead of Night He Is Sent Up to Loose the MainSkysail | 90 |
The Cook and Steward | 93 |
He Endeavors to Improve His Mind and Tells of One Blunt and His DreamBook | 98 |
A Narrow Escape | 105 |
CHAPTER 20 In a Fog He Is Set to Work as a BellToller and Beholds a Herd of OceanElephants | 108 |
A Whaleman and a ManofWarsMan | 112 |
The Highlander Passes a Wreck | 115 |
An Unaccountable CabinPassenger and a Mysterious Young Lady | 119 |
He Begins to Hop About in the Rigging Like a Saint Jagos Monkey | 127 |
CHAPTER 25 QuarterDeck Furniture | 131 |
A Sailor a Jack of All Trades | 133 |
He Gets a Peep at Ireland and at Last Arrives at Liverpool | 137 |
He Goes to Supper at the Sign of the Baltimore Clipper | 144 |
Redburn Deferentially Discourses Concerning the Prospects of Sailors | 150 |
Redburn Grows Intolerably Flat and Stupid over Some Outlandish Old GuideBooks | 155 |
With His Prosy Old GuideBook He Takes | 165 |
The Docks | 176 |
The Irrawaddy | 187 |
The Old Church of St Nicholas and the Dead | 196 |
The DockWall Beggars | 205 |
Placards BrassJewelers TruckHorses | 212 |
Redburn Roves About Hither and Thither | 220 |
His Adventure with the Cross Old Gentleman | 228 |
Redburn Introduces Master Harry Bolton to | 237 |
CHAPTER 45 Harry Bolton Kidnaps Redburn and Carries | 246 |
HomewardBound | 260 |
A Living Corpse | 267 |
Harry Bolton at | 277 |
CHAPTER SI The Emigrants | 284 |
Some Superior Old NailRod and PigTail | 295 |
Under the Lee of the LongBoat Redburn | 302 |
Almost a Famine | 308 |
CHAPTER 59 | 320 |
Redburn and Harry Arm and Arm in Harbor | 328 |
The Last That Was Ever Heard of Harry Bolton | 337 |
CHAPTER 72 Herein are the good Ordinances of the Sea | 665 |
Night and Day Gambling in a Manofwar | 671 |
Sink Burn and Destroy | 684 |
Loomings | 795 |
The Carpet | 801 |
CHAPTER 6 | 827 |
The Pulpit | 834 |
CHAPTER IO A Bosom Friend | 846 |
Biographical | 852 |
Nantucket | 860 |
The Ship | 866 |
The Ramadan | 880 |
CHAPTER 40 | 976 |
Moby Dick | 983 |
The Affidavit | 1009 |
CHAPTER 46 Surmises | 1018 |
CHAPTER 48 | 1024 |
The Hyena | 1035 |
CHAPTER SI The SpiritSpout | 1041 |
CHAPTER 53 | 1047 |
Monstrous Pictures of Whales | 1073 |
Of Whales in Paint in Teeth | 1082 |
CHAPTER 59 | 1088 |
The Pequod meets the Virgin | 1169 |
The Honor and Glory of Whaling | 1180 |
The Tail | 1194 |
Schools Schoolmasters | 1212 |
Heads or Tails | 1220 |
Ambergris | 1230 |
A Squeeze of the Hand | 1238 |
CHAPTER 123 The Musket | 1340 |
The Log and Line | 1348 |
Ahab and the Carpenter | 1356 |
CHAPTER 129 | 1363 |
The Pequod meets the Delight | 1370 |
The Chase First | 1377 |
CHAPTER 134 | 1387 |
The Chase Third | 1396 |
EPILOGUE | 1408 |
Chronology | 1409 |
Notes | 1423 |