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- Moby Dick
- by Herman Melville (1819-1891)
-
- Born in New York City, the son of New England merchant.
- He worked at odd jobs (clerk, garmhand, teacher)
- before sailing to the South Seas on the whaler i{Acushnet}.
- He deserted his ship, lived among cannibals, mutinied on
- an Australian boat, then spent two years on an American
- boat returning to the U.S. He successfully romanticized
- these adventures, publishing seven novels in six years,
- including i{Moby Dick} (1851), one of the masterworks of
- American fiction. His popularity waned, and by the time
- he died he was virtually forgotten. i{Billy Budd} was
- his last great novel. As his writing declined, Melville
- sailed again, around Cape Horn to San Francisco on a clipper
- ship commanded by his brother.
-
- File: Contents:
- moby.0 Preliminary Matter. \ This text of Melville's Moby-Dick is based on
- moby.1 LOOMINGS\ Call me Ishmael. Some years ago--never mind how
- moby.2 THE CARPET-BAG\ I stuffed a shirt or two into my old
- moby.3 THE SPOUTER-INN\ Entering that gable-ended Spouter-Inn,
- moby.4 THE COUNTERPANE\ Upon waking next morning about daylight,
- moby.5 BREAKFAST\ I quickly followed suit, and descending into
- moby.6 THE STREET\ If I had been astonished at first catching a
- moby.7 THE CHAPEL\ In this same New Bedford there stands a
- moby.8 THE PULPIT\ I had not been seated very long ere a man
- moby.9 THE SERMON\ Father Mapple rose, and in a mild voice of
- moby.10 A BOSOM FRIEND\ Returning to the Spouter-Inn from the
- moby.11 NIGHTGOWN\ We had lain thus in bed, chatting and
- moby.12 BIOGRAPHICAL\ Queequeg was a native of Kokovoko, an
- moby.13 WHEELBARROW\ wheelbarrow next morning, Monday, after disposing of
- moby.14 NANTUCKET\ Nothing more happened on the passage worthy
- moby.15 CHOWDER\ It was quite late in the evening when the
- moby.16 THE SHIP\ In bed we concocted our plans for the morrow.
- moby.17 THE RAMADAN\ As Queequeg's Ramadan, or Fasting and
- moby.18 HIS MARK\ As we were walking down the end of the wharf
- moby.19 THE PROPHET\ Shipmates, have ye shipped in that ship?
- moby.20 ALL ASTIR\ A day or two passed, and there was great
- moby.21 GOING ABOARD\ It was nearly six o'clock, but only grey
- moby.22 MERRY CHRISTMAS\ At length, towards noon, upon the
- moby.23 THE LEE SHORE\ Some chapters back, one Bulkington was
- moby.24 THE ADVOCATE\ As Queequeg and I are now fairly embarked
- moby.25 POSTSCRIPT\ In behalf of the dignity of whaling, I
- moby.26 KNIGHTS AND SQUIRES\ The chief mate of the Pequod was
- moby.27 KNIGHTS AND SQUIRES\ Stubb was the second mate. He
- moby.28 AHAB\ For several days after leaving Nantucket,
- moby.29 ENTER AHAB; TO HIM, STUBB\ Some days elapsed, and ice
- moby.30 THE PIPE\ When Stubb had departed, Ahab stood for a
- moby.31 QUEEN MAB\ Next morning Stubb accosted Flask. Such a
- moby.32 CETOLOGY\ Already we are boldly launched upon the
- moby.33 THE SPECKSYNDER\ Concerning the officers of the
- moby.34 THE CABIN-TABLE\ It is noon; and Dough-Boy, the
- moby.35 THE MAST-HEAD\ It was during the more pleasant weather,
- moby.36 THE QUARTER-DECK\ ( enter Ahab: Then, all.) It
- moby.37 SUNSET\ The cabin; by the stern windows;
- moby.38 DUSK\ By the Mainmast; Starbuck leaning
- moby.39 FIRST NIGHT-WATCH FORE-TOP\ ( Stubb solus, and
- moby.40 MIDNIGHT, FORECASTLE HARPOONERS AND SAILORS\ ( Foresail
- moby.41 MOBY DICK\ I, Ishmael, was one of that crew; my shouts
- moby.42 THE WHITENESS OF THE WHALE\ What the white whale was to
- moby.43 HARK\ ! Hist! Did you hear that noise, Cabaco?
- moby.44 THE CHART\ Had you followed Captain Ahab down into his
- moby.45 THE AFFIDAVIT\ So far as what there may be of a
- moby.46 SURMISES\ Though, consumed with the hot fire of his
- moby.47 THE MAT-MAKER\ It was a cloudy, sultry afternoon;
- moby.48 THE FIRST LOWERING\ The phantoms, for so they then
- moby.49 THE HYENA\ There are certain queer times and occasions
- moby.50 AHAB'S BOAT AND CREW. FEDALLAH\ Who would have thought
- moby.51 THE SPIRIT-SPOUT\ Days, weeks passed, and under easy
- moby.52 THE ALBATROSS\ South-eastward from the Cape, off the
- moby.53 THE GAM\ The ostensible reason why Ahab did not go on
- moby.54 THE TOWN-HO'S STORY\ ( As told at the Golden Inn.)
- moby.55 OF THE MONSTROUS PICTURES OF WHALES\ I shall ere long
- moby.56 OF THE LESS ERRONEOUS PICTURES OF WHALES, AND THE TRUE\
- moby.57 OF WHALES IN PAINT; IN TEETH; IN WOOD; IN\
- moby.58 BRIT\ Steering north-eastward from the Crozetts, we
- moby.59 SQUID\ Slowly wading through the meadows of brit, the
- moby.60 THE LINE\ With reference to the whaling scene shortly to
- moby.61 STUBB KILLS A WHALE\ If to Starbuck the apparition of
- moby.62 THE DART\ A word concerning an incident in the last
- moby.63 THE CROTCH\ Out of the trunk, the branches grow; out
- moby.64 STUBB'S SUPPER\ Stubb's whale had been killed some
- moby.65 THE WHALE AS A DISH\ That mortal man should feed upon
- moby.66 THE SHARK MASSACRE\ When in the Southern Fishery, a
- moby.67 CUTTING IN\ It was a Saturday night, and such a
- moby.68 THE BLANKET\ I have given no small attention to that
- moby.69 THE FUNERAL\ Haul in the chains! Let the carcase go
- moby.70 THE SPHYNX\ It should not have been omitted that
- moby.71 THE JEROBOAM'S STORY\ Hand in hand, ship and breeze
- moby.73 STUBB AND FLASK KILL A RIGHT WHALE; AND THEN HAVE\
- moby.74 THE SPERM WHALE'S HEAD--CONTRASTED VIEW\ Here, now, are
- moby.75 THE RIGHT WHALE'S HEAD--CONTRASTED VIEW\ Crossing the
- moby.76 THE BATTERING-RAM\ Ere quitting, for the nonce, the
- moby.77 THE GREAT HEIDELBURGH TUN\ Now comes the Baling of
- moby.78 CISTERN AND BUCKETS\ Nimble as a cat, Tashtego
- moby.79 THE PRAIRE\ To scan the lines of his face, or feel
- moby.80 THE NUT\ If the Sperm Whale be physiognomically a
- moby.81 THE PEQUOD MEETS THE VIRGIN\ The predestinated day
- moby.82 THE HONOR AND GLORY OF WHALING\ There are some
- moby.83 JONAH HISTORICALLY REGARDED\ Reference was made to
- moby.84 PITCHPOLING\ To make them run easily and swiftly,
- moby.85 THE FOUNTAIN\ That for six thousand years --and no one
- moby.86 THE TAIL\ Other poets have warbled the praises of
- moby.87 THE GRAND ARMADA\ The long and narrow peninsula of
- moby.88 SCHOOLS AND SCHOOLMASTERS\ The previous chapter
- moby.89 FAST-FISH AND LOOSE-FISH\ The allusion to the waifs
- moby.90 HEADS OR TAILS\ De balena vero sufficit, si rex habeat
- moby.91 THE PEQUOD MEETS THE ROSE-BUD\ In vain it was to rake
- moby.92 AMBERGRIS\ Now this ambergris is a very curious
- moby.93 THE CASTAWAY\ It was but some few days after
- moby.94 A SQUEEZE OF THE HAND\ That whale of Stubb's so dearly
- moby.95 THE CASSOCK\ Had you stepped on board the Pequod at a
- moby.96 THE TRY-WORKS\ Besides her hoisted boats, an American
- moby.97 THE LAMP\ Had you descended from the Pequod's
- moby.98 STOWING DOWN AND CLEARING UP\ Already has it been
- moby.99 THE DOUBLOON\ Ere now it has been related how Ahab was
- moby.100 LEG AND ARM THE PEQUOD, OF NANTUCKET, MEETS THE SAMUEL\
- moby.101 THE DECANTER\ Ere the English ship fades from sight, be
- moby.102 A BOWER IN THE ARSACIDES\ Hitherto, in descriptively
- moby.103 MEASUREMENT OF THE WHALE'S SKELETON\ In the first
- moby.104 THE FOSSIL WHALE\ From his mighty bulk the whale
- moby.105 DOES THE WHALE'S MAGNITUDE DIMINISH? WILL HE PERISH?\ Inasmuch, then
- moby.106 AHAB'S LEG\ The precipitating manner in which Captain
- moby.107 THE CARPENTER\ Seat thyself sultanically among the
- moby.108 AHAB AND THE CARPENTER THE DECK--FIRST NIGHT WATCH\
- moby.109 AHAB AND STARBUCK IN THE CABIN\ According to usage they
- moby.110 QUEEQUEG IN HIS COFFIN\ Upon searching, it was found
- moby.111 THE PACIFIC\ When gliding by the Bashee isles we emerged
- moby.112 THE BLACKSMITH\ The blacksmith availing himself of the mild,
- moby.113 THE FORGE\ With matted beard, and swathed in a
- moby.114 THE GILDER\ Penetrating further and further into the
- moby.115 THE PEQUOD MEETS THE BACHELOR\ And jolly enough were
- moby.116 THE DYING WHALE\ Not seldom in this life, when, on the
- moby.117 THE WHALE WATCH\ The four whales slain that evening
- moby.118 THE QUADRANT\ The season for the Line at length drew
- moby.119 THE CANDLES\ Warmest climes but nurse the cruellest
- moby.120 THE DECK TOWARDS THE END OF THE FIRST NIGHT WATCH\
- moby.121 MIDNIGHT--THE FORECASTLE BULWARKS\ Stubb and Flask
- moby.122 MIDNIGHT ALOFT--THUNDER AND LIGHTNING\ The
- moby.123 THE MUSKET\ During the most violent shocks of the
- moby.124 THE NEEDLE\ Next morning the not-yet-subsided sea
- moby.125 THE LOG AND LINE\ While now the fated Pequod had been
- moby.126 THE LIFE-BUOY\ Steering now south-eastward by Ahab's
- moby.127 THE DECK\ The coffin laid upon two line-tubs, between
- moby.128 THE PEQUOD MEETS THE RACHEL\ Next day, a large
- moby.129 THE CABIN\ (Ahab moving to go on deck; Pip catches
- moby.130 THE HAT\ And now that at the proper time and place,
- moby.131 THE PEQUOD MEETS THE DELIGHT\ The intense Pequod
- moby.132 THE SYMPHONY\ It was a clear steel-blue day. The
- moby.133 THE CHASE--FIRST DAY\ That night, in the mid-watch,
- moby.134 THE CHASE--SECOND DAY\ At day-break, the three
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