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Moby-Dick

by Herman Melville · 139 parts · about 17 hours 29 minutes of reading

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Call me Ishmael. A young sailor signs on to the whaling ship Pequod and finds her captain, Ahab, hunting one particular white whale with a fury that frightens his own crew. Part sea adventure, part meditation on obsession, Moby-Dick opens with the most famous first line in American fiction and never lets go of you.

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Contents

Dedication1 minEtymology1 minExtracts17 minChapter I: Loomings11 minChapter II: The Carpetbag7 minChapter III: The Spouter-Inn29 minChapter IV: The Counterpane8 minChapter V: Breakfast4 minChapter VI: The Street4 minChapter VII: The Chapel5 minChapter VIII: The Pulpit5 minChapter IX: The Sermon18 minChapter X: A Bosom Friend8 minChapter XI: Nightgown4 minChapter XII: Biographical4 minChapter XIII: Wheelbarrow8 minChapter XIV: Nantucket4 minChapter XV: Chowder6 minChapter XVI: The Ship27 minChapter XVII: The Ramadan11 minChapter XVIII: His Mark7 minChapter XIX: The Prophet6 minChapter XX: All Astir5 minChapter XXI: Going Aboard5 minChapter XXII: Merry Christmas8 minChapter XXIII: The Lee Shore2 minChapter XXIV: The Advocate8 minChapter XXV: Postscript1 minChapter XXVI: Knights and Squires6 minChapter XXVII: Knights and Squires8 minChapter XXVIII: Ahab7 minChapter XXIX: Enter Ahab; To Him, Stubb6 minChapter XXX: The Pipe1 minChapter XXXI: Queen Mab4 minChapter XXXII: Cetology25 minChapter XXXIII: The Specksnyder5 minChapter XXXIV: The Cabin-Table11 minChapter XXXV: The Masthead13 minChapter XXXVI: The Quarterdeck14 minChapter XXXVII: Sunset2 minChapter XXXVIII: Dusk2 minChapter XXXIX: First Night-Watch1 minChapter XL: Midnight, Forecastle8 minChapter XLI: Moby Dick19 minChapter XLII: The Whiteness of the Whale15 minChapter XLIII: Hark!1 minChapter XLIV: The Chart9 minChapter XLV: The Affidavit16 minChapter XLVI: Surmises5 minChapter XLVII: The Mat-Maker5 minChapter XLVIII: The First Lowering20 minChapter XLIX: The Hyena4 minChapter L: Ahab’s Boat and Crew. Fedallah5 minChapter LI: The Spirit-Spout7 minChapter LII: The Albatross4 minChapter LIII: The Gam8 minChapter LIV: The Town-Ho ’s Story40 minChapter LV: Of the Monstrous Pictures of Whales9 minChapter LVI: Of the Less Erroneous Pictures of Whales, and the True Pictures of Whaling Scenes7 minChapter LVII: Of Whales in Paint; in Teeth; in Wood; in Sheet-Iron; in Stone; in Mountains; in Stars5 minChapter LVIII: Brit5 minChapter LIX: Squid5 minChapter LX: The Line7 minChapter LXI: Stubb Kills a Whale9 minChapter LXII: The Dart3 minChapter LXIII: The Crotch2 minChapter LXIV: Stubb’s Supper14 minChapter LXV: The Whale as a Dish5 minChapter LXVI: The Shark Massacre3 minChapter LXVII: Cutting In4 minChapter LXVIII: The Blanket6 minChapter LXIX: The Funeral2 minChapter LXX: The Sphynx4 minChapter LXXI: The Jeroboam ’s Story11 minChapter LXXII: The Monkey-Rope8 minChapter LXXIII: Stubb and Flask Kill a Right Whale; and Then Have a Talk Over Him11 minChapter LXXIV: The Sperm Whale’s Head—Contrasted View8 minChapter LXXV: The Right Whale’s Head—Contrasted View6 minChapter LXXVI: The Battering-Ram4 minChapter LXXVII: The Great Heidelburgh Tun3 minChapter LXXVIII: Cistern and Buckets8 minChapter LXXIX: The Prairie5 minChapter LXXX: The Nut4 minChapter LXXXI: The Pequod Meets the Virgin21 minChapter LXXXII: The Honor and Glory of Whaling6 minChapter LXXXIII: Jonah Historically Regarded4 minChapter LXXXIV: Pitchpoling4 minChapter LXXXV: The Fountain10 minChapter LXXXVI: The Tail9 minChapter LXXXVII: The Grand Armada23 minChapter LXXXVIII: Schools and Schoolmasters6 minChapter LXXXIX: Fast-Fish and Loose-Fish7 minChapter XC: Heads or Tails5 minChapter XCI: The Pequod Meets the Rose-Bud12 minChapter XCII: Ambergris5 minChapter XCIII: The Castaway8 minChapter XCIV: A Squeeze of the Hand6 minChapter XCV: The Cassock2 minChapter XCVI: The Try-Works9 minChapter XCVII: The Lamp1 minChapter XCVIII: Stowing Down and Clearing Up5 minChapter XCIX: The Doubloon12 minChapter C: Leg and Arm13 minChapter CI: The Decanter9 minChapter CII: A Bower in the Arsacides8 minChapter CIII: Measurement of the Whale’s Skeleton5 minChapter CIV: The Fossil Whale7 minChapter CV: Does the Whale’s Magnitude Diminish?—Will He Perish?8 minChapter CVI: Ahab’s Leg5 minChapter CVII: The Carpenter5 minChapter CVIII: Ahab and the Carpenter8 minChapter CIX: Ahab and Starbuck in the Cabin4 minChapter CX: Queequeg in His Coffin11 minChapter CXI: The Pacific2 minChapter CXII: The Blacksmith5 minChapter CXIII: The Forge6 minChapter CXIV: The Gilder3 minChapter CXV: The Pequod Meets the Bachelor4 minChapter CXVI: The Dying Whale3 minChapter CXVII: The Whale Watch2 minChapter CXVIII: The Quadrant4 minChapter CXIX: The Candles13 minChapter CXX: The Deck Towards the End of the First Night Watch1 minChapter CXXI: Midnight.—The Forecastle Bulwarks3 minChapter CXXII: Midnight Aloft.—Thunder and Lightning1 minChapter CXXIII: The Musket6 minChapter CXXIV: The Needle6 minChapter CXXV: The Log and Line5 minChapter CXXVI: The Life-Buoy7 minChapter CXXVII: The Deck3 minChapter CXXVIII: The Pequod Meets the Rachel7 minChapter CXXIX: The Cabin3 minChapter CXXX: The Hat8 minChapter CXXXI: The Pequod Meets the Delight2 minChapter CXXXII: The Symphony8 minChapter CXXXIII: The Chase—First Day17 minChapter CXXXIV: The Chase—Second Day16 minChapter CXXXV: The Chase—Third Day22 minEpilogue1 min

Source: Standard Ebooks. Published 1851. Author died 1891. Public domain worldwide. Share this book: WhatsApp

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