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  Table of Contents

  FROM THE PAGES OF MOBY-DICK

  Title Page

  Copyright Page

  HERMAN MELVILLE

  THE WORLD OF HERMAN MELVILLE ANDMOBY-DICK

  Introduction

  Dedication

  ETYMOLOGY

  EXTRACTS

  CHAPTER I. - Loomings.

  CHAPTER II. - The Carpet-Bag.

  CHAPTER III. - The Spouter-Inn.

  CHAPTER IV. - The Counterpane.

  CHAPTER V. - Breakfast.

  CHAPTER VI. - The Street.

  CHAPTER VII. - The Chapel.

  CHAPTER VIII. - The Pulpit.

  CHAPTER IX. - The Sermon.

  CHAPTER X. - A Bosom Friend.

  CHAPTER XI. - Nightgown.

  CHAPTER XII. - Biographical.

  CHAPTER XIII. - Wheelbarrow.

  CHAPTER XIV. - Nantucket.

  CHAPTER XV. - Chowder.

  CHAPTER XVI. - The Ship.

  CHAPTER XVII. - The Ramadan.

  CHAPTER XVIII. - His Mark.

  CHAPTER XIX. - The Prophet.

  CHAPTER XX. - All Astir.

  CHAPTER XXI. - Going Aboard.

  CHAPTER XXII. - Merry Christmas.

  CHAPTER XXIII. - The Lee Shore.

  CHAPTER XXIV. - The Advocate.

  CHAPTER XXV. - Postscript.

  CHAPTER XXVI. - Knights and Squires.

  CHAPTER XXVII. - Knights and Squires.

  CHAPTER XXVIII. - Ahab.

  CHAPTER XXIX. - Enter Ahab; to Him, Stubb.

  CHAPTER XXX. - The Pipe.

  CHAPTER XXXI. - Queen Mab.

  CHAPTER XXXII. - Cetology.

  CHAPTER XXXIII. - The Specksynder.

  CHAPTER XXXIV. - The Cabin-Table.

  CHAPTER XXXV. - The Mast-Head.

  CHAPTER XXXVI. - The Quarter-Deck.

  CHAPTER XXXVII. - Sunset.

  CHAPTER XXXVIII. - Dusk.

  CHAPTER XXXIX. - First Night-Watch.

  CHAPTER XL. - Midnight, Forecastle.

  HARPOONEERS AND SAILORS.

  1ST NANTUCKET SAILOR.

  2D NANTUCKET SAILOR.

  DUTCH SAILOR.

  FRENCH SAILOR.

  PIP.

  FRENCH SAILOR.

  ICELAND SAILOR.

  MALTESE SAILOR.

  SICILIAN SAILOR.

  LONG-ISLAND SAILOR.

  AZORE SAILOR. - (Ascending, and pitching the tambourine up the scuttle.)

  AZORE SAILOR. - (Dancing.)

  PIP.

  CHINA SAILOR.

  FRENCH SAILOR.

  TASHTEGO. - (Quietly smoking.)

  OLD MANX SAILOR.

  3D NANTUCKET SAILOR.

  LASCAR SAILOR.

  MALTESE SAILOR. - (Reclining and shaking his cap.)

  SICILIAN SAILOR. - (Reclining.)

  TAHITAN SAILOR. - (Reclining on a mat.)

  PORTUGUESE SAILOR.

  DANISH SAILOR.

  4TH NANTUCKET SAILOR.

  ENGLISH SAILOR.

  ALL.

  OLD MANX SAILOR.

  DAGGOO.

  SPANISH SAILOR.

  DAGGOO (grimly.)

  ST. JAGO’S SAILOR.

  5TH NANTUCKET SAILOR.

  SPANISH SAILOR.

  DAGGOO (springing).

  SPANISH SAILOR (meeting him).

  ALL.

  TASHTEGO (with a whiff ).

  BELFAST SAILOR.

  ENGLISH SAILOR.

  OLD MANX SAILOR.

  MATE’S VOICE FROM THE QUARTER-DECK

  ALL.

  PIP (shrinking under the windlass).

  CHAPTER XLI. - Moby Dick.

  CHAPTER XLII. - The Whiteness of the Whale.

  CHAPTER XLIII. - Hark!

  CHAPTER XLIV. - The Chart.

  CHAPTER XLV. - The Affidavit.

  CHAPTER XLVI. - Surmises.

  CHAPTER XLVII. - The Mat-Maker.

  CHAPTER XLVIII. - The First Lowering.

  CHAPTER XLIX. - The Hyena.

  CHAPTER L. - Ahab’s Boat and Crew. Fedallah.

  CHAPTER LI. - The Spirit-Spout.

  CHAPTER LII. - The Albatross.

  CHAPTER LIII. - The Gam.

  CHAPTER LIV. - The Town-Ho’s Story.

  CHAPTER LV. - Of the Monstrous Pictures of Whales.

  CHAPTER LVI. - Of the Less Erroneous Pictures of Whales, and the True Pictures ...

  CHAPTER LVII. - Of Whales in Paint; in Teeth; in Wood; in Sheet-Iron; in Stone; ...

  CHAPTER LVIII. - Brit.

  CHAPTER LIX. - Squid.

  CHAPTER LX. - The Line.

  CHAPTER LXI. - Stubb Kills a Whale.

  CHAPTER LXII. - The Dart.

  CHAPTER LXIII. - The Crotch.

  CHAPTER LXIV. - Stubb’s Supper.

  CHAPTER LXV. - The Whale as a Dish.

  CHAPTER LXVI. - The Shark Massacre.

  CHAPTER LXVII. - Cutting In.

  CHAPTER LXVIII. - The Blanket.

  CHAPTER LXIX. - The Funeral.

  CHAPTER LXX. - The Sphinx.

  CHAPTER LXXI. - The Jeroboam’s Story.

  CHAPTER LXXII. - The Monkey-Rope.

  CHAPTER LXXIII. - Stubb and Flask Kill a Right Whale; and Then Have a Talk Over Him.

  CHAPTER LXXIV. - The Sperm Whale’s Head—Contrasted View.

  CHAPTER LXXV. - The Right Whale’s Head.—Contrasted View.

  CHAPTER LXXVI. - The Battering-Ram.

  CHAPTER LXXVII. - The Great Heidelburgh Tun.

  CHAPTER LXXVIII. - Cistern and Buckets.

  CHAPTER LXXIX. - The Prairie.

  CHAPTER LXXX. - The Nut.

  CHAPTER LXXXI. - The Pequod Meets the Virgin.

  CHAPTER LXXXII. - The Honor and Glory of Whaling.

  CHAPTER LXXXIII. - Jonah Historically Regarded.

  CHAPTER LXXXIV. - Pitchpoling.

  CHAPTER LXXXV. - The Fountain.

  CHAPTER LXXXVI. - The Tail.

  CHAPTER LXXXVII. - The Grand Armada.

  CHAPTER LXXXVIII. - Schools and Schoolmasters.

  CHAPTER LXXXIX. - Fast-Fish and Loose Fish.

  CHAPTER XC. - Heads or Tails.

  CHAPTER XCI. - The Pequod Meets the Rose-Bud.

  CHAPTER XCII. - Ambergris.

  CHAPTER XCIII. - The Castaway.

  CHAPTER XCIV. - A Squeeze of the Hand.

  CHAPTER XCV. - The Cassock.

  CHAPTER XCVI. - The Try-Works.

  CHAPTER XCVII. - The Lamp.

  CHAPTER XCVIII. - Stowing Down and Clearing Up.

  CHAPTER XCIX. - The Doubloon.

  CHAPTER C. - Leg and Arm.

  CHAPTER CI. - The Decanter.

  CHAPTER CII. - A Bower in the Arsacides.

  CHAPTER CIII. - Measurement of the Whale’s Skeleton.

  CHAPTER CIV. - The Fossil Whale.

  CHAPTER CV. - Does the Whale’s Magnitude Diminish?—Will He Perish?

  CHAPTER CVI. - Ahab’s Leg.

  CHAPTER CVII. - The Carpenter.

  CHAPTER CVIII. - Ahab and the Carpenter.

  AHAB (advancing).

  CARPENTER (resuming his work).

  CHAPTER CIX. - Ahab and Starbuck in the Cabin.

  CHAPTER CX. - Queequeg in His Coffin.

  CHAPTER CXI. - The Pacific.

  CHAPTER CXII. - The Blacksmith.

  CHAPTER CXIII. - The Forge.

  CHAPTER CXIV. - The Gilder.

  CHAPTER CXV. - The Pequod Meets the Bachelor.

  CHAPTER CXVI. - The Dying Whale.

  CHAPTER CXVII. - The Whale Watch.

  CHAPTER CXVIII. - The Quadrant.

  CHAPTER CXIX. - The Candles.

  CHAPTE
R CXX. - The Deck Towards the End of the First Night Watch.

  CHAPTER CXXI. - Midnight.—The Forecastle Bulwarks.

  CHAPTER CXXII. - Midnight Aloft.—Thunder and Lightning.

  CHAPTER CXXIII. - The Musket.

  CHAPTER CXXIV. - The Needle.

  CHAPTER CXXV. - The Log and Line.

  CHAPTER CXXVI. - The Life-Buoy.

  CHAPTER CXXVII. - The Deck.

  CHAPTER CXXVIII. - The Pequod Meets the Rachel.

  CHAPTER CXXIX. - The Cabin.

  CHAPTER CXXX. - The Hat.

  CHAPTER CXXXI. - The Pequod Meets the Delight.

  CHAPTER CXXXII. - The Symphony.

  CHAPTER CXXXIII. - The Chase—First Day.

  CHAPTER CXXXIV. - The Chase—Second Day.

  CHAPTER CXXXV. - The Chase—Third Day.

  Epilogue.

  ENDNOTES

  DICTIONARY OF SEA TERMS

  INSPIRED BY MOBY-DICK

  COMMENTS & QUESTIONS

  FOR FURTHER READING

  FROM THE PAGES OF MOBY-DICK

  Call me Ishmael.

  A man like Queequeg you don’t see every day, he and his ways were well worth unusual regarding.

  Ship and boat diverged; the cold, damp night-breeze blew between; a screaming gull flew overhead; the two hulls wildly rolled; we gave three heavy-hearted cheers, and blindly plunged like fate into the lone Atlantic.

  Starbuck was no crusader after perils; in him courage was not a sentiment; but a thing simply useful to him, and always at hand upon all mortally practical occasions.

  His bone leg steadied in that hole; one arm elevated, and holding by a shroud; Captain Ahab stood erect, looking straight out beyond the ship’s ever-pitching prow.

  “Aye, Starbuck; aye, my hearties all round; it was Moby Dick that dismasted me; Moby Dick that brought me to this dead stump I stand on now.”

  “He tasks me; he heaps me; I see in him outrageous strength, with an inscrutable malice sinewing it. That inscrutable thing is chiefly what I hate; and be the white whale agent, or be the white whale principal, I will wreak that hate upon him. Talk not to me of blasphemy, man; I’d strike the sun if it insulted me.”

  Ahab’s quenchless feud seemed mine. With greedy ear I learned the history of that murderous monster against whom I and all the others had taken our oaths of violence and revenge.

  All that most maddens and torments; all that stirs up the lees of things; all truth with malice in it; all that cracks the sinews and cakes the brain; all the subtle demonisms of life and thought; all evil, to crazy Ahab, were visibly personified, and made practically assailable in Moby Dick. He piled upon the whale’s white hump the sum of all the general rage and hate felt by his whole race from Adam down; and then, as if his chest had been a mortar, he burst his hot heart’s shell upon it.

  There are certain queer times and occasions in this strange mixed affair we call life when a man takes this whole universe for a vast practical joke, though the wit thereof he but dimly discerns, and more than suspects that the joke is at nobody’s expense but his own.

  At such times, under an abated sun; afloat all day upon smooth, slow heaving swells; seated in his boat, light as a birch canoe; and so sociably mixing with the soft waves themselves, that like hearthstone cats they purr against the gunwale; these are the times of dreamy quietude, when beholding the tranquil beauty and brilliancy of the ocean’s skin, one forgets the tiger heart that pants beneath it; and would not willingly remember, that this velvet paw but conceals a remorseless fang.

  They were one man, not thirty. For as the one ship that held them all; though it was put together of all contrasting things—oak, and maple, and pine wood; iron, and pitch, and hemp—yet all these ran into each other in the one concrete hull, which shot on its way, both balanced and directed by the long central keel; even so, all the individualities of the crew, this man’s valor, that man’s fear; guilt and guiltiness, all varieties were wedded into oneness, and were all directed to that fatal goal which Ahab their one lord and keel did point to.

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  Moby-Dick was first published in 1851.

  Published in 2003 by Barnes & Noble Classics with new Introduction, Notes, Biography, Chronology, Inspired By, Comments & Questions, and For Further Reading.

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  “At Melville’s Tomb,” from Complete Poems of Hart Crane by Hart Crane, edited by Marc Simon. Copyright 1933, 1958, 1966 by Liveright Corporation. Copyright © 1986 by Marc Simon. Used with permission of Liveright Publishing Corporation.

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  ISBN-10: 1-59308-018-2

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