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Moby Dick; Or, The Whale

Original Transcriber’s Notes: 7
ETYMOLOGY. 9
EXTRACTS. (Supplied by a Sub-Sub-Librarian). 13
CHAPTER 1. Loomings. 44
CHAPTER 2. The Carpet-Bag. 61
CHAPTER 3. The Spouter-Inn. 72
CHAPTER 4. The Counterpane. 117
CHAPTER 5. Breakfast. 130
CHAPTER 6. The Street. 137
CHAPTER 7. The Chapel. 144
CHAPTER 8. The Pulpit. 152
CHAPTER 9. The Sermon. 160
CHAPTER 10. A Bosom Friend. 186
CHAPTER 11. Nightgown. 198
CHAPTER 12. Biographical. 204
CHAPTER 13. Wheelbarrow. 212
CHAPTER 14. Nantucket. 225
CHAPTER 15. Chowder. 231
CHAPTER 16. The Ship. 242
CHAPTER 17. The Ramadan. 285
CHAPTER 18. His Mark. 303
CHAPTER 19. The Prophet. 315
CHAPTER 20. All Astir. 326
CHAPTER 21. Going Aboard. 334
CHAPTER 22. Merry Christmas. 345
CHAPTER 23. The Lee Shore. 359
CHAPTER 24. The Advocate. 363
CHAPTER 25. Postscript. 376
CHAPTER 26. Knights and Squires. 380
CHAPTER 27. Knights and Squires. 390
CHAPTER 28. Ahab. 403
CHAPTER 29. Enter Ahab; to Him, Stubb. 414
CHAPTER 30. The Pipe. 424
CHAPTER 31. Queen Mab. 428
CHAPTER 32. Cetology. 436
CHAPTER 33. The Specksnyder. 473
CHAPTER 34. The Cabin-Table. 481
CHAPTER 35. The Mast-Head. 498
CHAPTER 36. The Quarter-Deck. 517
CHAPTER 37. Sunset. 540
CHAPTER 38. Dusk. 545
CHAPTER 39. First Night Watch. 549
Fore-Top. 550
CHAPTER 40. Midnight, Forecastle. 553
HARPOONEERS AND SAILORS. 554
CHAPTER 41. Moby Dick. 569
CHAPTER 42. The Whiteness of The Whale. 596
CHAPTER 43. Hark! 623
CHAPTER 44. The Chart. 627
CHAPTER 45. The Affidavit. 642
CHAPTER 46. Surmises. 668
CHAPTER 47. The Mat-Maker. 676
CHAPTER 48. The First Lowering. 684
CHAPTER 49. The Hyena. 715
CHAPTER 50. Ahab’s Boat and Crew. Fedallah. 722
CHAPTER 51. The Spirit-Spout. 730
CHAPTER 52. The Albatross. 742
CHAPTER 53. The Gam. 749
CHAPTER 54. The Town-Ho’s Story. 762
CHAPTER 55. Of the Monstrous Pictures of Whales. 823
CHAPTER 56. Of the Less Erroneous Pictures of Whales, and the True Pictures of Whaling Scenes. 837
CHAPTER 57. Of Whales in Paint; in Teeth; in Wood; in Sheet-Iron; in Stone; in Mountains; in Stars. 847
CHAPTER 58. Brit. 855
CHAPTER 59. Squid. 863
CHAPTER 60. The Line. 871
CHAPTER 61. Stubb Kills a Whale. 883
CHAPTER 62. The Dart. 899
CHAPTER 63. The Crotch. 904
CHAPTER 64. Stubb’s Supper. 909
CHAPTER 65. The Whale as a Dish. 934
CHAPTER 66. The Shark Massacre. 942
CHAPTER 67. Cutting In. 948
CHAPTER 68. The Blanket. 954
CHAPTER 69. The Funeral. 964
CHAPTER 70. The Sphynx. 969
CHAPTER 71. The Jeroboam’s Story. 977
CHAPTER 72. The Monkey-Rope. 995
CHAPTER 73. Stubb and Flask Kill a Right Whale; and Then Have a Talk 1009
CHAPTER 74. The Sperm Whale’s Head—Contrasted View. 1027
CHAPTER 75. The Right Whale’s Head—Contrasted View. 1040
CHAPTER 76. The Battering-Ram. 1050
CHAPTER 77. The Great Heidelburgh Tun. 1057
CHAPTER 78. Cistern and Buckets. 1063
CHAPTER 79. The Prairie. 1075
CHAPTER 80. The Nut. 1083
CHAPTER 81. The Pequod Meets The Virgin. 1091
CHAPTER 82. The Honour and Glory of Whaling. 1124
CHAPTER 83. Jonah Historically Regarded. 1133
CHAPTER 84. Pitchpoling. 1140
CHAPTER 85. The Fountain. 1147
CHAPTER 86. The Tail. 1162
CHAPTER 87. The Grand Armada. 1176
CHAPTER 88. Schools and Schoolmasters. 1211
CHAPTER 89. Fast-Fish and Loose-Fish. 1220
CHAPTER 90. Heads or Tails. 1231
CHAPTER 91. The Pequod Meets The Rose-Bud. 1240
CHAPTER 92. Ambergris. 1261
CHAPTER 93. The Castaway. 1269
CHAPTER 94. A Squeeze of the Hand. 1282
CHAPTER 95. The Cassock. 1292
CHAPTER 96. The Try-Works. 1297
CHAPTER 97. The Lamp. 1311
CHAPTER 98. Stowing Down and Clearing Up. 1314
CHAPTER 99. The Doubloon. 1323
CHAPTER 100. Leg and Arm. 1342
The Pequod, of Nantucket, Meets the Samuel Enderby, of London. 1343
CHAPTER 101. The Decanter. 1365
CHAPTER 102. A Bower in the Arsacides. 1379
CHAPTER 103. Measurement of The Whale’s Skeleton. 1391
CHAPTER 104. The Fossil Whale. 1399
CHAPTER 105. Does the Whale’s Magnitude Diminish?—Will He Perish? 1410
CHAPTER 106. Ahab’s Leg. 1422
CHAPTER 107. The Carpenter. 1430
CHAPTER 108. Ahab and the Carpenter. 1439
The Deck—First Night Watch. 1440
CHAPTER 109. Ahab and Starbuck in the Cabin. 1454
CHAPTER 110. Queequeg in His Coffin. 1463
CHAPTER 111. The Pacific. 1480
CHAPTER 112. The Blacksmith. 1484
CHAPTER 113. The Forge. 1492
CHAPTER 114. The Gilder. 1503
CHAPTER 115. The Pequod Meets The Bachelor. 1509
CHAPTER 116. The Dying Whale. 1517
CHAPTER 117. The Whale Watch. 1522
CHAPTER 118. The Quadrant. 1528
CHAPTER 119. The Candles. 1536
CHAPTER 120. The Deck Towards the End of the First Night Watch. 1557
Ahab standing by the helm. Starbuck approaching him. 1558
CHAPTER 121. Midnight.—The Forecastle Bulwarks. 1561
CHAPTER 122. Midnight Aloft.—Thunder and Lightning. 1567
CHAPTER 123. The Musket. 1569
CHAPTER 124. The Needle. 1579
CHAPTER 125. The Log and Line. 1590
CHAPTER 126. The Life-Buoy. 1601
CHAPTER 127. The Deck. 1613
CHAPTER 128. The Pequod Meets The Rachel. 1620
CHAPTER 129. The Cabin. 1632
CHAPTER 130. The Hat. 1638
CHAPTER 131. The Pequod Meets The Delight. 1651
CHAPTER 132. The Symphony. 1656
CHAPTER 133. The Chase—First Day. 1669
CHAPTER 134. The Chase—Second Day. 1697
CHAPTER 135. The Chase.—Third Day. 1723
Epilogue 1757
“AND I ONLY AM ESCAPED ALONE TO TELL THEE” Job. 1758

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