Moby Dick
by Herman Melville Author
Captain Ahab and his crew pursue the great white whale. No American masterpiece casts quite as awesome a shadow as Melville's monumental Moby Dick. Mad Captain Ahab's quest for the White Whale is a timeless epic--a stirring tragedy of vengeance and obsession, a searing parable about humanity lost in a universe of moral ambiguity. It is the greatest sea story ever told. Far ahead of its own time, Moby Dick was largely misunderstood and unappreciated by Melville's contemporaries. Today, however, it is indisputably a classic. As D.H. Lawrence wrote, Moby Dick "commands a stillness in the soul, an awe . . . [It is] one of the strangest and most wonderful books in the world."
Additional Details
- Resource Type
- Book
- ISBN
- 9781853260087
- Print Status
- In Print
- Chapters
- 135
- Pages
- 501
- Suggested Grades
- 10th - 12th
- Publisher
- Wordswirth Classics
- Copyright
- 1907
- Written
- 1851
- URL
- http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/0553213113/ref...
Chapters
- 1 Loomings
- 2 The Carpet-Bag
- 3 The Spouter-Inn
- 4 The Counterpane
- 5 Breakfast
- 6 The Street
- 7 The Chapel
- 8 The Pulpit
- 9 The Sermon
- 10 A Bosom Friend
- 11 Nightgown
- 12 Biographical
- 13 Wheelbarrow
- 14 Nantucket
- 15 Chowder
- 16 The Ship
- 17 The Ramadan
- 18 His Mark
- 19 The Prophet
- 20 All Astir
- 21 Going Aboard
- 22 Merry Christmas
- 23 The Lee Shore
- 24 The Advocate
- 25 Postscript
- 26 Knights and Squires
- 27 Knights and Squires
- 28 Ahab
- 29 Enter Ahab; To Him, Stubb
- 30 The Pipe
- 31 Queen Mab
- 32 Cetology
- 33 The Specksynder
- 341 The Cabin-Table
- 35 The Masthead
- 36 The Quarter-Deck
- 37 Sunset
- 38 Dusk
- 39 First Night-Watch
- 40 Midnight, Forecastle
- 41 Moby Dick
- 42 The Whiteness of the Whale
- 43 Hark!
- 44 The Chart
- 45 The Affidavit
- 46 Surmises
- 47 The Mat-Maker
- 48 The First Lowering
- 49 The Hyena
- 50 Ahab's Boat and Crew. Fedallah
- 51 The Spirit-Spout
- 52 The Albatross
- 53 The Gam
- 54 The Town-Ho's Story
- 55 Of the Monstrous Pictures of Whales
- 56 Of the Less Erroneous Pictures of Whales
- 57 Of Whales in Paint
- 58 Brit
- 59 Squid
- 60 The Line
- 61 Stubb Kills a Whale
- 62 The Dart
- 63 The Crotch
- 64 Stubb's Supper
- 65 The Whale as a Dish
- 66 The Shark Massacre
- 67 Cutting-In
- 68 The Blanket
- 69 The Funeral
- 70 The Sphinx
- 71 The Jeroboam's Story
- 72 The Monkey-Rope
- 73 Stubb and Flask Kill a Right Whale
- 74 The Sperm Whale's Head
- 75 The Right Whale's Head
- 76 The Battering-Ram
- 77 The Great Heidelburgh Tun
- 78 Cistern and Buckets
- 79 The Prairie
- 80 The Nut
- 81 The Pequod Meets the Virgin
- 82 The Honour and Glory of Whaling
- 83 Jonah Historically Regarded
- 84 Pitchpoling
- 85 The Fountain
- 86 The Tail
- 87 The Grand Armada
- 88 Schools and Schoolmasters
- 89 Fast-Fish and Loose-Fish
- 90 Heads or Tails
- 91 The Pequod Meets the Rosebud
- 92 Ambergris
- 93 The Castaway
- 94 A Squeeze of the Hand
- 95 The Cassock
- 96 The Try-Works
- 97 The Lamp
- 98 Stowing Down and Clearing Up
- 99 The Doubloon
- 100 Leg and Arm
- 101 The Decanter
- 102 A Bower in the Arsacides
- 103 Measurement of the Whale's Skeleton
- 104 The Fossil Whale
- 105 Does the Whale's Magnitude Diminish?
- 106 Ahab's Leg
- 107 The Carpenter
- 108 Ahab and the Carpenter
- 109 Ahab and Starbuck in the Cabin
- 110 Queequeg in His Coffin
- 111 The Pacific
- 112 The Blacksmith
- 113 The Forge
- 114 The Glider
- 115 The Pequod Meets the Bachelor
- 116 The Dying Whale
- 117 The Whale Watch
- 118 The Quadrant
- 119 The Candles
- 120 The Deck Towards the End of the First Night Watch
- 121 Midnight-The Forecastle Bulwarks
- 122 Midnight Aloft-Thunder and Lightning
- 123 The Musket
- 124 The Needle
- 125 The Log and Line
- 126 The Lifebuoy
- 127 The Deck
- 128 The Pequod Meets the Rachel
- 129 The Cabin
- 130 The Hat
- 131 The Pequod Meets the Delight
- 132 The Symphony
- 133 The Chase - First Day
- 134 The Chase - Second Day
- 135 The Chase - Third Day
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