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Moby-Dick

Herman Melville, 1851.

Before you read: A long sea adventure with whaling and danger. Better for older readers.

Ishmael signs on to the whaling ship Pequod and discovers that Captain Ahab has one goal: to hunt down the white whale that took his leg. Melville mixes adventure with chapters on ships, whales, and the sea, and the voyage grows darker as Ahab's obsession takes over the crew.

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Chapters

  1. Chapter 1: Loomings
  2. Chapter 2: The Carpet-Bag
  3. Chapter 3: The Spouter-Inn
  4. Chapter 4: The Counterpane
  5. Chapter 5: Breakfast
  6. Chapter 6: The Street
  7. Chapter 7: The Chapel
  8. Chapter 8: The Pulpit
  9. Chapter 9: The Sermon
  10. Chapter 10: A Bosom Friend
  11. Chapter 11: Nightgown
  12. Chapter 12: Biographical
  13. Chapter 13: Wheelbarrow
  14. Chapter 14: Nantucket
  15. Chapter 15: Chowder
  16. Chapter 16: The Ship
  17. Chapter 17: The Ramadan
  18. Chapter 18: His Mark
  19. Chapter 19: The Prophet
  20. Chapter 20: All Astir
  21. Chapter 21: Going Aboard
  22. Chapter 22: Merry Christmas
  23. Chapter 23: The Lee Shore
  24. Chapter 24: The Advocate
  25. Chapter 25: Postscript
  26. Chapter 26: Knights and Squires
  27. Chapter 27: Knights and Squires
  28. Chapter 28: Ahab
  29. Chapter 29: Enter Ahab; to Him, Stubb
  30. Chapter 30: The Pipe
  31. Chapter 31: Queen Mab
  32. Chapter 32: Cetology
  33. Chapter 33: The Specksnyder
  34. Chapter 34: The Cabin-Table
  35. Chapter 35: The Mast-Head
  36. Chapter 36: The Quarter-Deck
  37. Chapter 37: Sunset
  38. Chapter 38: Dusk
  39. Chapter 39: First Night-Watch
  40. Chapter 40: Midnight, Forecastle
  41. Chapter 41: Moby Dick
  42. Chapter 42: The Whiteness of the Whale
  43. Chapter 43: Hark!
  44. Chapter 44: The Chart
  45. Chapter 45: The Affidavit
  46. Chapter 46: Surmises
  47. Chapter 47: The Mat-Maker
  48. Chapter 48: The First Lowering
  49. Chapter 49: The Hyena
  50. Chapter 50: Ahab’s Boat and Crew. Fedallah
  51. Chapter 51: The Spirit-Spout
  52. Chapter 52: The Albatross
  53. Chapter 53: The Gam
  54. Chapter 54: The Town-Ho’s Story
  55. Chapter 55: Of the Monstrous Pictures of Whales
  56. Chapter 56: Of the Less Erroneous Pictures of Whales, and the True
  57. Chapter 57: Of Whales in Paint; in Teeth; in Wood; in Sheet-Iron; in
  58. Chapter 58: Brit
  59. Chapter 59: Squid
  60. Chapter 60: The Line
  61. Chapter 61: Stubb Kills a Whale
  62. Chapter 62: The Dart
  63. Chapter 63: The Crotch
  64. Chapter 64: Stubb’s Supper
  65. Chapter 65: The Whale as a Dish
  66. Chapter 66: The Shark Massacre
  67. Chapter 67: Cutting In
  68. Chapter 68: The Blanket
  69. Chapter 69: The Funeral
  70. Chapter 70: The Sphynx
  71. Chapter 71: The Jeroboam’s Story
  72. Chapter 72: The Monkey-Rope
  73. Chapter 73: Stubb and Flask kill a Right Whale; and Then Have a Talk
  74. Chapter 74: The Sperm Whale’s Head—Contrasted View
  75. Chapter 75: The Right Whale’s Head—Contrasted View
  76. Chapter 76: The Battering-Ram
  77. Chapter 77: The Great Heidelburgh Tun
  78. Chapter 78: Cistern and Buckets
  79. Chapter 79: The Prairie
  80. Chapter 80: The Nut
  81. Chapter 81: The Pequod Meets The Virgin
  82. Chapter 82: The Honor and Glory of Whaling
  83. Chapter 83: Jonah Historically Regarded
  84. Chapter 84: Pitchpoling
  85. Chapter 85: The Fountain
  86. Chapter 86: The Tail
  87. Chapter 87: The Grand Armada
  88. Chapter 88: Schools and Schoolmasters
  89. Chapter 89: Fast-Fish and Loose-Fish
  90. Chapter 90: Heads or Tails
  91. Chapter 91: The Pequod Meets The Rose-Bud
  92. Chapter 92: Ambergris
  93. Chapter 93: The Castaway
  94. Chapter 94: A Squeeze of the Hand
  95. Chapter 95: The Cassock
  96. Chapter 96: The Try-Works
  97. Chapter 97: The Lamp
  98. Chapter 98: Stowing Down and Clearing Up
  99. Chapter 99: The Doubloon
  100. Chapter 100: Leg and Arm
  101. Chapter 101: The Decanter
  102. Chapter 102: A Bower in the Arsacides
  103. Chapter 103: Measurement of The Whale’s Skeleton
  104. Chapter 104: The Fossil Whale
  105. Chapter 105: Does the Whale’s Magnitude Diminish?—Will He Perish?
  106. Chapter 106: Ahab’s Leg
  107. Chapter 107: The Carpenter
  108. Chapter 108: Ahab and the Carpenter
  109. Chapter 109: Ahab and Starbuck in the Cabin
  110. Chapter 110: Queequeg in His Coffin
  111. Chapter 111: The Pacific
  112. Chapter 112: The Blacksmith
  113. Chapter 113: The Forge
  114. Chapter 114: The Gilder
  115. Chapter 115: The Pequod Meets The Bachelor
  116. Chapter 116: The Dying Whale
  117. Chapter 117: The Whale Watch
  118. Chapter 118: The Quadrant
  119. Chapter 119: The Candles
  120. Chapter 120: The Deck Towards the End of the First Night Watch
  121. Chapter 121: Midnight.—The Forecastle Bulwarks
  122. Chapter 123: The Musket
  123. Chapter 124: The Needle
  124. Chapter 125: The Log and Line
  125. Chapter 126: The Life-Buoy
  126. Chapter 127: The Deck
  127. Chapter 128: The Pequod Meets The Rachel
  128. Chapter 129: The Cabin
  129. Chapter 130: The Hat
  130. Chapter 131: The Pequod Meets The Delight
  131. Chapter 132: The Symphony
  132. Chapter 133: The Chase—First Day
  133. Chapter 134: The Chase—Second Day
  134. Chapter 135: The Chase.—Third Day
  135. Epilogue

Public-domain text. First published in 1851; Herman Melville died in 1891, so this text is in the public domain in the US, Canada, the EU and India. Summary and notes written by ViralScopeHub.

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