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White-Jacket; or, The World in a Man-of-War

लेखक Herman Melville · 94 भाग · about 11 hours 29 minutes पढ़ने का समय

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अध्याय

Author's Note1 min Chapter 1: The Jacket4 min Chapter 2: Homeward Bound3 min Chapter 3: A Glance at the Principal Divisions, Into Which a Man-Of-War's Crew Is Divided9 min Chapter 4: Jack Chase8 min Chapter 5: Jack Chase on a Spanish Quarter-Deck4 min Chapter 6: The Quarter-Deck Officers, Warrant Officers, and Berth-Deck Underlings of a Man-Of-War; Where They Live in the Ship; How They Live; Their Social Standing on Ship-Board; and What Sort of Gentlemen They Are16 min Chapter 7: Breakfast, Dinner, and Supper5 min Chapter 8: Selvagee Contrasted with Mad-Jack8 min Chapter 9: Of the Pockets That Were in the Jacket6 min Chapter 10: From Pockets to Pickpockets3 min Chapter 11: The Pursuit of Poetry Under Difficulties8 min Chapter 12: The Good or Bad Temper of Men-Of-War's Men, in a Great Degree, Attributable to Their Particular Stations and Duties Aboard Ship10 min Chapter 13: A Man-Of-War Hermit in a Mob5 min Chapter 14: A Draught in a Man-Of-War6 min Chapter 15: A Salt-Junk Club in a Man-Of-War, with a Notice to Quit14 min Chapter 16: General Training in a Man-Of-War14 min Chapter 17: Away! Second, Third, and Fourth Cutters, Away!5 min Chapter 18: A Man-Of-War Full as a Nut2 min Chapter 19: The Jacket Aloft6 min Chapter 20: How They Sleep in a Man-Of-War5 min Chapter 21: One Reason Why Men-Of-War's Men Are, Generally, Short-Lived6 min Chapter 22: Wash-Day and House-Cleaning in a Man-Of-War8 min Chapter 23: Theatricals in a Man-Of-War12 min Chapter 24: Introductory to Cape Horn7 min Chapter 25: The Dog-Days Off Cape Horn7 min Chapter 26: The Pitch of the Cape11 min Chapter 27: Some Thoughts Growing Out of Mad Jack's Countermanding His Superior's Order9 min Chapter 28: Edging Away6 min Chapter 29: The Night-Watches6 min Chapter 30: A Peep Through a Port-Hole at the Subterranean Parts of a Man-Of-War6 min Chapter 31: The Gunner Under Hatches8 min Chapter 32: A Dish of Dunderfunk4 min Chapter 33: A Flogging9 min Chapter 34: Some of the Evil Effects of Flogging8 min Chapter 35: Flogging Not Lawful8 min Chapter 36: Flogging Not Necessary9 min Chapter 37: Some Superior Old "london Dock" from the Wine-Coolers of Neptune4 min Chapter 38: The Chaplain and Chapel in a Man-Of-War7 min Chapter 39: The Frigate in Harbour.: The Boats.: Grand State Reception of the Commodore11 min Chapter 40: Some of the Ceremonies in a Man-Of-War Unnecessary and Injurious3 min Chapter 41: A Man-Of-War Library4 min Chapter 42: Killing Time in a Man-Of-War in Harbour13 min Chapter 43: Smuggling in a Man-Of-War11 min Chapter 44: A Knave in Office in a Man-Of-War19 min Chapter 45: Publishing Poetry in a Man-Of-War3 min Chapter 46: The Commodore on the Poop, and One of "the People" Under the Hands of the Surgeon8 min Chapter 47: An Auction in a Man-Of-War11 min Chapter 48: Purser, Purser's Steward, and Postmaster in a Man-Of-War5 min Chapter 49: Neversink4 min Chapter 50: The Bay of All Beauties5 min Chapter 51: One of "the People" Has an Audience with the Commodore and the Captain on the Quarter-Deck5 min Chapter 52: Something Concerning Midshipmen10 min Chapter 53: Seafaring Persons Peculiarly Subject to Being Under the Weather.: The Effects of This Upon a Man-Of-War Captain5 min Chapter 54: "the People" Are Given "liberty."9 min Chapter 55: Midshipmen Entering the Navy Early4 min Chapter 56: A Shore Emperor on Board a Man-Of-War8 min Chapter 57: The Emperor Reviews the People at Quarters4 min Chapter 58: A Quarter-Deck Officer Before the Mast3 min Chapter 59: A Man-Of-War Button Divides Two Brothers6 min Chapter 60: A Man-Of-War's-Man Shot at3 min Chapter 61: The Surgeon of the Fleet8 min Chapter 62: A Consultation of Man-Of-War Surgeons5 min Chapter 63: The Operation20 min Chapter 64: Man-Of-War Trophies4 min Chapter 65: A Man-Of-War Race10 min Chapter 66: Fun in a Man-Of-War5 min Chapter 67: White-Jacket Arraigned at the Mast9 min Chapter 68: A Man-Of-War Fountain, and Other Things7 min Chapter 69: Prayers at the Guns8 min Chapter 70: Monthly Muster Round the Capstan8 min Chapter 71: The Genealogy of the Articles of War5 min Chapter 72: "herein Are the Good Ordinances of the Sea, Which Wise Men, Who Voyaged Round the World, Gave to Our Ancestors, and Which Constitute the Books of the Science of Good Customs.": The Consulate of the Sea10 min Chapter 73: Night and Day Gambling in a Man-Of-War8 min Chapter 74: The Main-Top at Night15 min Chapter 75: "sink, Burn, and Destroy.": Printed Admiralty Orders in Time of War8 min Chapter 76: The Chains6 min Chapter 77: The Hospital in a Man-Of-War13 min Chapter 78: Dismal Times in the Mess4 min Chapter 79: How Man-Of-War's-Men Die at Sea5 min Chapter 80: The Last Stitch5 min Chapter 81: How They Bury a Man-Of-War's-Man at Sea1 min Chapter 82: What Remains of a Man-Of-War's-Man After His Burial at Sea2 min Chapter 83: A Man-Of-War College8 min Chapter 84: Man-Of-War Barbers9 min Chapter 85: The Great Massacre of the Beards14 min Chapter 86: The Rebels Brought to the Mast3 min Chapter 87: Old Ushant at the Gangway8 min Chapter 88: Flogging Through the Fleet7 min Chapter 89: The Social State in a Man-Of-War5 min Chapter 90: The Manning of Navies18 min Chapter 91: Smoking-Club in a Man-Of-War, with Scenes on the Gun-Deck Drawing Near Home10 min Chapter 92: The Last of the Jacket8 min Chapter 93: Cable and Anchor All Clear8 min