Moby-DickLooking for adventure and a new life, Ishmael, the story's narrator, decides to find work on a whaling boat. On arriving at the Massachusetts harbour to begin his search, the only bed available is already half occupied by a "cannibal" named Queequeg. Although Queequeg has limited English, a friendship forms and the two men sign up for work together aboard the Pequod under the infamous Captain Ahab. |
Contents
Etymology | 15 |
2 | 38 |
4 | 62 |
8 | 77 |
ΙΟ | 92 |
14 | 109 |
17 | 134 |
220 | 147 |
The Nut | 475 |
The Pequod Meets the Virgin | 478 |
The Honour and Glory of Whaling | 492 |
Jonah Historically Regarded | 496 |
Pitchpoling | 499 |
The Fountain | 502 |
The Tail | 509 |
The Grand Armada | 515 |
Going Aboard | 154 |
Merry Christmas | 158 |
The Lee Shore | 164 |
The Advocate | 165 |
Postscript | 171 |
Knights and Squires | 172 |
Knights and Squires | 176 |
Ahab | 182 |
Enter Ahab To Him Stubb | 187 |
The Pipe | 191 |
Queen Mab | 192 |
Cetology | 195 |
The Specksynder | 212 |
The CabinTable | 216 |
The MastHead | 223 |
The QuarterDeck | 232 |
Sunset | 242 |
Dusk | 244 |
First NightWatch | 245 |
Midnight Forecastle | 246 |
The Whiteness of the Whale | 267 |
Hark | 279 |
The Chart | 280 |
The Affidavit | 287 |
Surmises | 299 |
The MatMaker | 302 |
The Hyena | 319 |
51 | 325 |
52 | 331 |
54 | 339 |
Of the Monstrous Pictures | 366 |
56 | 372 |
858 | 380 |
60 | 387 |
62 | 399 |
65 | 413 |
The Blanket | 421 |
The Jeroboams Story | 430 |
The MonkeyRope | 438 |
Stubb and Flask Kill a Right Whale and Then Have a Talk Over Him | 444 |
The Sperm Whales Head Contrasted View | 451 |
The Right Whales Head Contrasted View | 456 |
The BatteringRam | 460 |
The Great Heidelburgh Tun | 463 |
Cistern and Buckets | 466 |
The Prairie | 471 |
Schools and Schoolmasters | 531 |
FastFish and LooseFish | 535 |
Heads or Tails | 540 |
The Pequod Meets the RoseBud | 544 |
Ambergris | 553 |
The Castaway | 556 |
A Squeeze of the Hand | 562 |
The Cassock | 566 |
The TryWorks | 568 |
The Lamp | 574 |
Stowing Down and Clearing Up | 575 |
The Doubloon | 578 |
Leg and Arm | 586 |
ΙΟΙ The Decanter | 595 |
A Bower in the Arsacides | 601 |
Measurement of the Whales Skeleton | 607 |
The Fossil Whale | 610 |
Does the Whales Magnitude Diminish? Will He Perish? | 615 |
Ahabs Leg | 621 |
The Carpenter | 624 |
Ahab and the Carpenter | 628 |
Ahab and Starbuck in the Cabin | 633 |
IIO Queequeg in his Coffin | 637 |
The Pacific | 644 |
The Blacksmith | 646 |
The Forge | 649 |
The Gilder | 653 |
The Pequod Meets the Bachelor | 656 |
The Dying Whale | 659 |
The Whale Watch | 661 |
The Quadrant | 663 |
The Candles | 666 |
The Deck Towards the End of the First Night Watch | 675 |
Midnight The Forecastle Bulwarks | 676 |
The Needle | 682 |
The Lifebuoy | 691 |
The Pequod Meets the Rachel | 698 |
The Hat | 705 |
The Pequod Meets the Delight | 711 |
The Chase First Day | 718 |
The ChaseSecond Day | 731 |
The Chase Third Day | 742 |
Afterword | 759 |
Further Reading | 767 |
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Common terms and phrases
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