Moby-Dick or, The Whale

Written with wonderfully redemptive humor, Moby-Dick is the story of an eerily compelling madman pursuing an unholy war against a creature as vast and dangerous and unknowable as the sea itself. Introduction by Andrew Delbanco Explanatory Commentary by Tom Quirk

Herman Melville (1819-1891) was born in New York City and became a seaman at a young age. His works include Typee, The Confidence Man, and Pierre.

Andrew Delbanco is the Julian Clarence Levi Professor in the Humanities at Columbia University.

Tom Quirk is the Catherine Paine Middlebush Professor of English at the University of Missouri-Columbia.

Introduction

xi

Suggestions for Further Reading

xxix

A Note on the Text

xxxi

Moby-Dick

Etymology

xxxvii

Extracts

xxxix

Loomings

3

(6)

The Carpet Bag

9

(4)

The Spouter-Inn

13

(15)

The Counterpane

28

(5)

Breakfast

33

(3)

The Street

36

(3)

The Chapel

39

(4)

The Pulpit

43

(3)

The Sermon

46

(9)

A Bosom Friend

55

(4)

Nightgown

59

(2)

Biographical

61

(3)

Wheelbarrow

64

(5)

Nantucket

69

(3)

Chowder

72

(4)

The Ship

76

(14)

The Ramadan

90

(6)

His Mark

96

(4)

The Prophet

100

(4)

All Astir

104

(3)

Going Aboard

107

(4)

Merry Christmas

111

(5)

The Lee Shore

116

(2)

The Advocate

118

(5)

Postscript

123

(1)

Knights and Squires

124

(4)

Knights and Squires

128

(5)

Ahab

133

(4)

Enter Ahab; to him, Stubb

137

(4)

The Pipe

141

(1)

Queen Mab

142

(3)

Cetology

145

(13)

The Specksynder

158

(3)

The Cabin Table

161

(6)

The Mast-Head

167

(7)

The Quarter-Deck Ahab and all

174

(8)

Sunset

182

(2)

Dusk

184

(2)

First Night-Watch

186

(1)

Forecastle---Midnight

187

(7)

Moby Dick

194

(10)

The Whiteness of the Whale

204

(9)

Hark!

213

(2)

The Chart

215

(6)

The Affidavit

221

(9)

Surmises

230

(3)

The Mat-Maker

233

(3)

The First Lowering

236

(11)

The Hyena

247

(3)

Ahab's Boat and Crew---Fedallah

250

(3)

The Spirit-Spout

253

(4)

The Pequod meets the Albatross

257

(3)

The Gam

260

(5)

The Town Ho's Story

265

(20)

Monstrous Pictures of Whales

285

(5)

Less Erroneous Pictures of Whales

290

(4)

Of Whales in Paint, in Teeth, & c.

294

(3)

Brit

297

(3)

Squid

300

(3)

The Line

303

(4)

Stubb kills a Whale

307

(6)

The Dart

313

(2)

The Crotch

315

(2)

Stubb's Supper

317

(8)

The Whale as a Dish

325

(3)

The Shark Massacre

328

(2)

Cutting In

330

(2)

The Blanket

332

(4)

The Funeral

336

(2)

The Sphynx

338

(3)

The Pequod meets the Jeroboam Her Story

341

(7)

The Monkey-rope

348

(5)

Stubb & Flask kill a Right Whale

353

(6)

The Sperm Whale's Head

359

(5)

The Right Whale's Head

364

(4)

The Battering-Ram

368

(3)

The Great Heidelburgh Tun

371

(2)

Cistern and Buckets

373

(5)

The Prairie

378

(3)

The Nut

381

(3)

The Pequod meets the Virgin

384

(11)

The Honor and Glory of Whaling

395

(4)

Jonah Historically Regarded

399

(3)

Pitchpoling

402

(3)

The Fountain

405

(5)

The Tail

410

(5)

The Grand Armada

415

(13)

Schools & Schoolmasters

428

(4)

Fast Fish and Loose Fish

432

(4)

Heads or Tails

436

(4)

The Pequod meets the Rose Bud

440

(7)

Ambergris

447

(3)

The Castaway

450

(5)

A Squeeze of the Hand

455

(4)

The Cassock

459

(2)

The Try-Works

461

(5)

The Lamp

466

(1)

Stowing Down & Clearing Up

467

(3)

The Doubloon

470

(6)

The Pequod meets the Samuel Enderby of London

476

(7)

The Decanter

483

(1)

A Bower in the Arsacides

483

(10)

Measurement of the Whale's Skeleton

493

(3)

The Fossil Whale

496

(4)

Does the Whale Diminish?

500

(5)

Ahab's Leg

505

(3)

The Carpenter

508

(3)

The Deck Ahab and the Carpenter

511

(5)

The Cabin Ahab and Starbuck

516

(3)

Queequeg in his Coffin

519

(6)

The Pacific

525

(2)

The Blacksmith

527

(3)

The Forge

530

(4)

The Gilder

534

(2)

The Pequod meets the Bachelor

536

(3)

The Dying Whale

539

(2)

The Whale-Watch

541

(2)

The Quadrant

543

(3)

The Candles

546

(7)

The Deck

553

(1)

Midnight, on the Forecastle

554

(2)

Midnight, Aloft

556

(1)

The Musket

557

(4)

The Needle

561

(4)

The Log and Line

565

(4)

The Life-Buoy

569

(4)

Ahab and the Carpenter

573

(3)

The Pequod meets the Rachel

576

(4)

The Cabin Ahab and Pip

580

(2)

The Hat

582

(5)

The Pequod meets the Delight

587

(2)

The Symphony

589

(5)

The Chase First Day

594

(10)

The Chase Second Day

604

(9)

The Chase Third Day

613

(12)

Epilogue

625

(4)

List of Textual Emendations

629

(6)

Explanatory Notes

635

(16)

Glossary of Nautical Terms

651

(4)

Maps and Illustrations

655

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