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Moby Dick

Or The Whale

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Etymology
Extracts
Chapter 1 -- Loomings
Chapter 2 -- The Carpet-Bag
Chapter 3 -- The Spouter-Inn
Chapter 4 -- The Counterpane
Chapter 5 -- Breakfast
Chapter 6 -- The Street
Chapter 7 -- The Chapel
Chapter 8 -- The Pulpit
Chapter 9 -- The Sermon
Chapter 10 -- A Bosom Friend
Chapter 11 -- Nightgown
Chapter 12 -- Biographical
Chapter 13 -- Wheelbarrow
Chapter 14 -- Nantucket
Chapter 15 -- Chowder
Chapter 16 -- The Ship
Chapter 17 -- The Ramadan
Chapter 18 -- His Mark
Chapter 19 -- The Prophet
Chapter 20 -- All Astir
Chapter 21 -- Going Aboard
Chapter 22 -- Merry Christmas
Chapter 23 -- The Lee Shore
Chapter 24 -- The Advocate
Chapter 25 -- Postscript
Chapter 26 -- Knights and Squires (26)
Chapter 27 -- Knights and Squires (27)
Chapter 28 -- Ahab
Chapter 29 -- Enter Ahab; to Him, Stubb
Chapter 30 -- The Pipe
Chapter 31 -- Queen Mab
Chapter 32 -- Cetology
Chapter 33 -- The Specksnyder
Chapter 34 -- The Cabin-Table
Chapter 35 -- The Mast-Head
Chapter 36 -- The Quarter-Deck
Chapter 37 -- Sunset
Chapter 38 -- Dusk
Chapter 39 -- First Night Watch
Chapter 40 -- Midnight, Forecastle
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Chapter 42 -- The Whiteness of The Whale
Chapter 43 -- Hark!
Chapter 44 -- The Chart
Chapter 45 -- The Affidavit
Chapter 46 -- Surmises
Chapter 47 -- The Mat-Maker
Chapter 48 -- The First Lowering
Chapter 49 -- The Hyena
Chapter 50 -- Ahab's Boat and Crew. Fedallah
Chapter 51 -- The Spirit-Spout
Chapter 52 -- The Albatross
Chapter 53 -- The Gam
Chapter 54 -- The Town-Ho's Story
Chapter 55 -- Of the Monstrous Pictures of Whales
Chapter 56 -- Of the Less Erroneous Pictures of Whales, and the True Pictures of Whaling Scenes
Chapter 57 -- Of Whales in Paint; in Teeth; in Wood; in Sheet-Iron; in Stone; in Mountains; in Stars
Chapter 58 -- Brit
Chapter 59 -- Squid
Chapter 60 -- The Line
Chapter 61 -- Stubb Kills a Whale
Chapter 62 -- The Dart
Chapter 63 -- The Crotch
Chapter 64 -- Stubb's Supper
Chapter 65 -- The Whale as a Dish
Chapter 66 -- The Shark Massacre
Chapter 67 -- Cutting In
Chapter 68 -- The Blanket
Chapter 69 -- The Funeral
Chapter 70 -- The Sphynx
Chapter 71 -- The Jeroboam's Story
Chapter 72 -- The Monkey-Rope
Chapter 73 -- Stubb and Flask Kill a Right Whale;
Chapter 74 -- The Sperm Whale's Head -- Contrasted View
Chapter 75 -- The Right Whale's Head -- Contrasted View
Chapter 76 -- The Battering-Ram
Chapter 77 -- The Great Heidelburgh Tun
Chapter 78 -- Cistern and Buckets
Chapter 79 -- The Prairie
Chapter 80 -- The Nut
Chapter 81 -- The Pequod Meets The Virgin
Chapter 82 -- The Honour and Glory of Whaling
Chapter 83 -- Jonah Historically Regarded
Chapter 84 -- Pitchpoling
Chapter 85 -- The Fountain
Chapter 86 -- The Tail
Chapter 87 -- The Grand Armada
Chapter 88 -- Schools and Schoolmasters
Chapter 89 -- Fast-Fish and Loose-Fish
Chapter 90 -- Heads or Tails
Chapter 91 -- The Pequod Meets The Rose-Bud
Chapter 92 -- Ambergris
Chapter 93 -- The Castaway
Chapter 94 -- A Squeeze of the Hand
Chapter 95 -- The Cassock
Chapter 96 -- The Try-Works
Chapter 97 -- The Lamp
Chapter 98 -- Stowing Down and Clearing Up
Chapter 99 -- The Doubloon
Chapter 100 -- Leg and Arm
Chapter 101 -- The Decanter
Chapter 102 -- A Bower in the Arsacides
Chapter 103 -- Measurement of The Whale's Skeleton
Chapter 104 -- The Fossil Whale
Chapter 105 -- Does the Whale's Magnitude Diminish? -- Will He Perish?
Chapter 106 -- Ahab's Leg
Chapter 107 -- The Carpenter
Chapter 108 -- Ahab and the Carpenter
Chapter 109 -- Ahab and Starbuck in the Cabin
Chapter 110 -- Queequeg in His Coffin
Chapter 111 -- The Pacific
Chapter 112 -- The Blacksmith
Chapter 113 -- The Forge
Chapter 114 -- The Gilder
Chapter 115 -- The Pequod Meets The Bachelor
Chapter 116 -- The Dying Whale
Chapter 117 -- The Whale Watch
Chapter 118 -- The Quadrant
Chapter 119 -- The Candles
Chapter 120 -- The Deck Towards the End of the First Night Watch
Chapter 121 -- Midnight -- The Forecastle Bulwarks
Chapter 122 -- Midnight Aloft -- Thunder and Lightning
Chapter 123 -- The Musket
Chapter 124 -- The Needle
Chapter 125 -- The Log and Line
Chapter 126 -- The Life-Buoy
Chapter 127 -- The Deck
Chapter 128 -- The Pequod Meets The Rachel
Chapter 129 -- The Cabin
Chapter 130 -- The Hat
Chapter 131 -- The Pequod Meets The Delight
Chapter 132 -- The Symphony
Chapter 133 -- The Chase -- First Day
Chapter 134 -- The Chase -- Second Day
Chapter 135 -- The Chase -- Third Day
Epilogue -- "And I Only Am Escaped Alone To Tell Thee" Job
Endnotes
Meta-Data
Original Transcriber's Notes
Selections from One-Star Amazon Reviews of Melville's Moby Dick

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Etymology

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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 the signification of the word, you deliver that which is not true." -- HACKLUYT

"WHALE... Sw. and Dan. HVAL. This animal is named from roundness or rolling; for in Dan. HVALT is arched or vaulted." -- WEBSTER'S DICTIONARY

"WHALE... It is more immediately from the Dut. and Ger. WALLEN; A.S. WALW-IAN, to roll, to wallow." -- RICHARDSON'S DICTIONARY

style="text-align:center; color:green; font-size:93%; border:0px dotted red; background-color:snow;"> | KETOS | GREEK |
| CETUS | LATIN |
| WHOEL | ANGLO-SAXON |
| HVALT | DANISH |
| WAL | DUTCH |
| HWAL | SWEDISH |
| WHALE | ICELANDIC |
| WHALE | ENGLISH |
| BALEINE | FRENCH |
| BALLENA | SPANISH |
| PEKEE-NUEE-NUEE | FEGEE |
| PEHEE-NUEE-NUEE | ERROMANGOAN |

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Extracts

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Moby Dick

table of contents

-- Etymology

-- Extracts

-- Chapter 1 -- Loomings

-- Chapter 2 -- The Carpet-Bag

-- Chapter 3 -- The Spouter-Inn

-- Chapter 4 -- The Counterpane

-- Chapter 5 -- Breakfast

-- Chapter 6 -- The Street

-- Chapter 7 -- The Chapel

-- Chapter 8 -- The Pulpit

-- Chapter 9 -- The Sermon

-- Chapter 10 -- A Bosom Friend

-- Chapter 11 -- Nightgown

-- Chapter 12 -- Biographical

-- Chapter 13 -- Wheelbarrow

-- Chapter 14 -- Nantucket

-- Chapter 15 -- Chowder

-- Chapter 16 -- The Ship

-- Chapter 17 -- The Ramadan

-- Chapter 18 -- His Mark

-- Chapter 19 -- The Prophet

-- Chapter 20 -- All Astir

-- Chapter 21 -- Going Aboard

-- Chapter 22 -- Merry Christmas

-- Chapter 23 -- The Lee Shore

-- Chapter 24 -- The Advocate

-- Chapter 25 -- Postscript

-- Chapter 26 -- Knights and Squires (26)

-- Chapter 27 -- Knights and Squires (27)

-- Chapter 28 -- Ahab

-- Chapter 29 -- Enter Ahab; to Him, Stubb

-- Chapter 30 -- The Pipe

-- Chapter 31 -- Queen Mab

-- Chapter 32 -- Cetology

-- Chapter 33 -- The Specksnyder

-- Chapter 34 -- The Cabin-Table

-- Chapter 35 -- The Mast-Head

-- Chapter 36 -- The Quarter-Deck

-- Chapter 37 -- Sunset

-- Chapter 38 -- Dusk

-- Chapter 39 -- First Night Watch

-- Chapter 40 -- Midnight, Forecastle

-- Chapter 41 -- Moby Dick

-- Chapter 42 -- The Whiteness of The Whale

-- Chapter 43 -- Hark!

-- Chapter 44 -- The Chart

-- Chapter 45 -- The Affidavit

-- Chapter 46 -- Surmises

-- Chapter 47 -- The Mat-Maker

-- Chapter 48 -- The First Lowering

-- Chapter 49 -- The Hyena

-- Chapter 50 -- Ahab's Boat and Crew. Fedallah

-- Chapter 51 -- The Spirit-Spout

-- Chapter 52 -- The Albatross

-- Chapter 53 -- The Gam

-- Chapter 54 -- The Town-Ho's Story

-- Chapter 55 -- Of the Monstrous Pictures of Whales

-- Chapter 56 -- Of the Less Erroneous Pictures of Whales, and the True Pictures of Whaling Scenes

-- Chapter 57 -- Of Whales in Paint; in Teeth; in Wood; in Sheet-Iron; in Stone; in Mountains; in Stars

-- Chapter 58 -- Brit

-- Chapter 59 -- Squid

-- Chapter 60 -- The Line

-- Chapter 61 -- Stubb Kills a Whale

-- Chapter 62 -- The Dart

-- Chapter 63 -- The Crotch

-- Chapter 64 -- Stubb's Supper

-- Chapter 65 -- The Whale as a Dish

-- Chapter 66 -- The Shark Massacre

-- Chapter 67 -- Cutting In

-- Chapter 68 -- The Blanket

-- Chapter 69 -- The Funeral

-- Chapter 70 -- The Sphynx

-- Chapter 71 -- The Jeroboam's Story

-- Chapter 72 -- The Monkey-Rope

-- Chapter 73 -- Stubb and Flask Kill a Right Whale; and Then Have a Talk Over Him

-- Chapter 74 -- The Sperm Whale's Head -- Contrasted View

-- Chapter 75 -- The Right Whale's Head -- Contrasted View

-- Chapter 76 -- The Battering-Ram

-- Chapter 77 -- The Great Heidelburgh Tun

-- Chapter 78 -- Cistern and Buckets

-- Chapter 79 -- The Prairie

-- Chapter 80 -- The Nut

-- Chapter 81 -- The Pequod Meets The Virgin

-- Chapter 82 -- The Honour and Glory of Whaling

-- Chapter 83 -- Jonah Historically Regarded

-- Chapter 84 -- Pitchpoling

-- Chapter 85 -- The Fountain

-- Chapter 86 -- The Tail

-- Chapter 87 -- The Grand Armada

-- Chapter 88 -- Schools and Schoolmasters

-- Chapter 89 -- Fast-Fish and Loose-Fish

-- Chapter 90 -- Heads or Tails

-- Chapter 91 -- The Pequod Meets The Rose-Bud

-- Chapter 92 -- Ambergris

-- Chapter 93 -- The Castaway

-- Chapter 94 -- A Squeeze of the Hand

-- Chapter 95 -- The Cassock

-- Chapter 96 -- The Try-Works

-- Chapter 97 -- The Lamp

-- Chapter 98 -- Stowing Down and Clearing Up

-- Chapter 99 -- The Doubloon

-- Chapter 100 -- Leg and Arm

-- Chapter 101 -- The Decanter

-- Chapter 102 -- A Bower in the Arsacides

-- Chapter 103 -- Measurement of The Whale's Skeleton

-- Chapter 104 -- The Fossil Whale

-- Chapter 105 -- Does the Whale's Magnitude Diminish? -- Will He Perish?

-- Chapter 106 -- Ahab's Leg

-- Chapter 107 -- The Carpenter

-- Chapter 108 -- Ahab and the Carpenter

-- Chapter 109 -- Ahab and Starbuck in the Cabin

-- Chapter 110 -- Queequeg in His Coffin

-- Chapter 111 -- The Pacific

-- Chapter 112 -- The Blacksmith

-- Chapter 113 -- The Forge

-- Chapter 114 -- The Gilder

-- Chapter 115 -- The Pequod Meets The Bachelor

-- Chapter 116 -- The Dying Whale

-- Chapter 117 -- The Whale Watch

-- Chapter 118 -- The Quadrant

-- Chapter 119 -- The Candles

-- Chapter 120 -- The Deck Towards the End of the First Night Watch

-- Chapter 121 -- Midnight -- The Forecastle Bulwarks

-- Chapter 122 -- Midnight Aloft -- Thunder and Lightning

-- Chapter 123 -- The Musket

-- Chapter 124 -- The Needle

-- Chapter 125 -- The Log and Line

-- Chapter 126 -- The Life-Buoy

-- Chapter 127 -- The Deck

-- Chapter 128 -- The Pequod Meets The Rachel

-- Chapter 129 -- The Cabin

-- Chapter 130 -- The Hat

-- Chapter 131 -- The Pequod Meets The Delight

-- Chapter 132 -- The Symphony

-- Chapter 133 -- The Chase -- First Day

-- Chapter 134 -- The Chase -- Second Day

-- Chapter 135 -- The Chase -- Third Day

-- Epilogue -- "And I Only Am Escaped Alone To Tell Thee" Job

-- Endnotes

-- Meta-Data

-- Original Transcriber's Notes

-- Selections from One-Star Amazon Reviews of Melville's Moby Dick