Chapters
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Chapter 1: Loomings
“still deeper the meaning of that story of Narcissus”
“perhaps the most uncomfortable infliction that the two orchard thieves entailed upon us”
Chapter 2: The Carpet Bag
“that Lazarus should lie stranded there on the curbstone before the door of Dives”
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
“the wondrous traditional story of how this island was settled by the redman”
Chapter 15: Chowder
“Oh, sweet friends! hearken to me.”
Chapter 16: The Ship
“They are fighting Quakers; they are Quakers with a vengeance.”
“‘and Ahab of old, thou knowest, was a crowned king!’”
Chapter 17: The Ramadan
Chapter 18: His Mark
“‘I say, Quohog, blast ye! dost thou sign thy name or make thy mark?’”
Chapter 19: The Prophet
Chapter 20: All Astir
Chapter 21: Going Abroad
Chapter 22: Merry Christmas
“a small choice copy of Watts in every seaman’s berth”
Chapter 23: The Lee Shore
“straight up, leaps thy apotheosis!”
Chapter 24: The Advocate
“that Egyptian mother, who bore offspring themselves pregnant from her womb”
“And who pronounced our glowing eulogy in Parliament? Who, but Edmund Burke!”
Chapter 25: Postscript
Chapter 26: Knights and Squires
Chapter 27: Knights and Squires
Chapter 28: Ahab
Chapter 29: Enter Ahab; to him, Stubb
“‘it’s a kind of Tic-Dolly-row they say—worse nor a toothache’”
Chapter 30: The Pipe
Chapter 31: Queen Mab
Chapter 32: Cetology
Chapter 33: The Specksynder
Chapter 34: The Cabin Table
Chapter 35: The Mast-Head
Chapter 36: The Quarter-Deck: Ahab and All
Chapter 37: Sunset
Chapter 38: Dusk
Chapter 39: First Night-Watch
Chapter 40: Forecastle—Midnight
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 Pequod Meets the Albatross
Chapter 53: The Gam
Chapter 54: The Town Ho’s Story
Chapter 55: Monstrous Pictures of Whales
Chapter 56: Less Erroneous Pictures of Whales
Chapter 57: of Whales in Paint, in Teeth, &c.
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 Sphinx
Chapter 71: The Pequod Meets the Jeroboam—Her Story
Chapter 72: The Monkey-Rope
Chapter 73: Stubb and Flask Kill a Right Whale
Chapter 74: The Sperm Whale’s Head
Chapter 75: The Right Whale’s Head
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 Honor 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 & 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 & Clearing Up
Chapter 99: The Doubloon
Chapter 100: The Pequod Meets the Samuel Enderby of London
Chapter 101: The Decanter
Chapter 102: A Bower in the Arsacides
Chapter 103: Measurement of the Whale’s Skeleton
Chapter 104: The Fossil Whale
“The Alabama doctors declared it a huge reptile, and bestowed upon it the name of Basilosaurus.”
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