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Moby Dick

By Herman Melville.

Table of Contents Titlepage Imprint Dedication Etymology Extracts Moby Dick I: Loomings II: The Carpetbag III: The Spouter-Inn IV: The Counterpane V: Breakfast VI: The Street VII: The Chapel VIII: The Pulpit IX: The Sermon X: A Bosom Friend XI: Nightgown XII: Biographical XIII: Wheelbarrow XIV: Nantucket XV: Chowder XVI: The Ship XVII: The Ramadan XVIII: His Mark XIX: The Prophet XX: All Astir XXI: Going Aboard XXII: Merry Christmas XXIII: The Lee Shore XXIV: The Advocate XXV: Postscript XXVI: Knights and Squires XXVII: Knights and Squires XXVIII: Ahab XXIX: Enter Ahab; To Him, Stubb XXX: The Pipe XXXI: Queen Mab XXXII: Cetology XXXIII: The Specksnyder XXXIV: The Cabin-Table XXXV: The Masthead XXXVI: The Quarterdeck XXXVII: Sunset XXXVIII: Dusk XXXIX: First Night-Watch XL: Midnight, Forecastle XLI: Moby Dick XLII: The Whiteness of the Whale XLIII: Hark! XLIV: The Chart XLV: The Affidavit XLVI: Surmises XLVII: The Mat-Maker XLVIII: The First Lowering XLIX: The Hyena L: Ahab’s Boat and Crew. Fedallah LI: The Spirit-Spout LII: The Albatross LIII: The Gam LIV: The Town-Ho’s Story LV: Of the Monstrous Pictures of Whales LVI: Of the Less Erroneous Pictures of Whales, and the True Pictures of Whaling Scenes LVII: Of Whales in Paint; in Teeth; in Wood; in Sheet-Iron; in Stone; in Mountains; in Stars LVIII: Brit LIX: Squid LX: The Line LXI: Stubb Kills a Whale LXII: The Dart LXIII: The Crotch LXIV: Stubb’s Supper LXV: The Whale as a Dish LXVI: The Shark Massacre LXVII: Cutting In LXVIII: The Blanket LXIX: The Funeral LXX: The Sphynx LXXI: The Jeroboam’s Story LXXII: The Monkey-Rope LXXIII: Stubb and Flask Kill a Right Whale; and Then Have a Talk Over Him LXXIV: The Sperm Whale’s Head—Contrasted View LXXV: The Right Whale’s Head—Contrasted View LXXVI: The Battering-Ram LXXVII: The Great Heidelburgh Tun LXXVIII: Cistern and Buckets LXXIX: The Prairie LXXX: The Nut LXXXI: The Pequod Meets the Virgin LXXXII: The Honor and Glory of Whaling LXXXIII: Jonah Historically Regarded LXXXIV: Pitchpoling LXXXV: The Fountain LXXXVI: The Tail LXXXVII: The Grand Armada LXXXVIII: Schools and Schoolmasters LXXXIX: Fast-Fish and Loose-Fish XC: Heads or Tails XCI: The Pequod Meets the Rose-Bud XCII: Ambergris XCIII: The Castaway XCIV: A Squeeze of the Hand XCV: The Cassock XCVI: The Try-Works XCVII: The Lamp XCVIII: Stowing Down and Clearing Up XCIX: The Doubloon C: Leg and Arm CI: The Decanter CII: A Bower in the Arsacides CIII: Measurement of the Whale’s Skeleton CIV: The Fossil Whale CV: Does the Whale’s Magnitude Diminish?—Will He Perish? CVI: Ahab’s Leg CVII: The Carpenter CVIII: Ahab and the Carpenter CIX: Ahab and Starbuck in the Cabin CX: Queequeg in His Coffin CXI: The Pacific CXII: The Blacksmith CXIII: The Forge CXIV: The Gilder CXV: The Pequod Meets the Bachelor CXVI: The Dying Whale CXVII: The Whale Watch CXVIII: The Quadrant CXIX: The Candles CXX: The Deck Towards the End of the First Night Watch CXXI: Midnight.—The Forecastle Bulwarks CXXII: Midnight Aloft.—Thunder and Lightning CXXIII: The Musket CXXIV: The Needle CXXV: The Log and Line CXXVI: The Life-Buoy CXXVII: The Deck CXXVIII: The Pequod Meets the Rachel CXXIX: The Cabin CXXX: The Hat CXXXI: The Pequod Meets the Delight CXXXII: The Symphony CXXXIII: The Chase—First Day CXXXIV: The Chase—Second Day CXXXV: The Chase—Third Day Epilogue Endnotes Colophon Uncopyright Imprint

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In token
Of my admiration for his genius
This book is inscribed
To
Nathaniel Hawthorne.

Etymology (Supplied by a Late Consumptive Usher to a Grammar School)

The pale Usher⁠—threadbare in coat, heart, body, and brain; I see him now. He was ever dusting his old lexicons and grammars, with a queer handkerchief, mockingly embellished with all the gay flags of all the known nations of the world. He loved to dust his old grammars; it somehow mildly reminded him of his mortality.

“While you take in hand to school others, and to teach them by what name a whale-fish is to be called in our tongue, leaving out, through ignorance, the letter H, which almost alone maketh up the signification of the word, you deliver that which is not true.”

Hackluyt.

“Whale.⁠ ⁠… Sw. and Dan. hval. This animal is named from roundness