Moby Dick, or, The whale
By: by Herman Melville
Series: Great books of the Western world -- v. 48; Great books of the Western world -- v. 48.
Publisher: Encyclopaedia Britannica
Published: 1952
Place of publication: Chicago
Language: eng
Number of pages: 420
Subjects: Whales; Fiction; Captain Ahab (Fictitious character); Whaling ships; Ship captains; Mentally ill; Whaling
Other titles: Whale
Description: A classic of the sea, telling of the pursuit of Moby Dick, the white whale who defied capture.
Notes: Great books of the Western world v.48
Table of contents: title: Loomings; title: Carpet bag; title: Spouter Inn; title: Counterpane; title: Breakfast; title: Street; title: Chapel; title: Pulpit; title: Sermon; title: Bosom friend; title: Nightgown; title: Biographical; title: Wheelbarrow; title: Nantucket; title: Chowder; title: Ship; title: Ramadan; title: His mark; title: Prophet; title: All astir; title: Going aboard; title: Merry Christmas; title: Lee shore; title: Advocate; title: Postscript; title: Knights and Squires; title: Knights and squires(cont.); title: Ahab; title: Enter Ahab; to him, Stubb; title: Pipe; title: Queen Mab; title: Cetology; title: Specksynder; title: Cabin table; title: Masthead; title: Quarterdeck; title: Sunset; title: Dusk; title: First night-watch; title: Midnight: Forecastle; title: Moby Dick; title: Whiteness of the whale; title: Hark!; title: Chart; title: Affidavit; title: Surmises; title: Mat-maker; title: First lowering; title: Hyena; title: Ahab's boat and crew; Fedallah; title: Spirit-spout; title: Albatross; title: Gam; title: Town-Ho's story; title: Of the monstrous pictures of whales; title: Of the less erroneous pictures of whales, and the true pictures of whaling scenes; title: Of whales in paint; in teeth; in wood; in sheetiron; in stone; in mountains; in stars; title: Brit; title: Squid; title: Line; title: Stubb kills a whale; title: Dart; title: Crotch; title: Stubb's supper; title: Whale as a dish; title: Shark massacre; title: Cutting-in; title: Blanket; title: Funeral; title: Sphinx; title: Jeroboam's story; title: Monkey-rope; title: Stubb and Flask kill a right whale, and then have a talk over him; title: Sperm whale's head; contrasted view; title: Right whale's head; contrasted view; title: Battering-ram; title: Great Heidelburgh turn; title: Cistern and buckets; title: Prairie; title: Nut; title: Pequod meets the Virgin; title: Honour and glory of whaling; title: Jonah historically regarded; title: Pitchpoling; title: Fountain; title: Tail; title: Grand armada; title: Schools and schoolmasters; title: Fast-fish and loose-fish; title: Heads or tails; title: Pequod meets the Rosebud; title: Ambergris; title: Castaway; title: Squeeze of the hand; title: Cassock; title: Try-works; title: Lamp; title: Stowing down and clearing up; title: Doubloon; title: Leg and arm; the Pequod of Nantucket meets the Samuel Enderby of London; title: Decanter; title: Bower in the Arsacides; title: Measurement of the Whale's skeleton; title: Fossil whale; title: Does the whale's magnitude diminish? Will he perish?; title: Ahab's leg; title: Carpenter; title: Ahab and the carpenter; title: Ahab and Starbuck in the cabin; title: Queequeg in his coffin; title: Pacific; title: Blacksmith; title: Forge; title: Gilder; title: Pequod meets the Bachelor; title: Dying whale; title: Whale watch; title: Quadrant; title: Candles; title: Deck towards the end of the first night watch; title: Midnight: The forecastle bulwarks; title: Midnight aloft; thunder and lightning; title: Musket; title: Needle; title: Log and line; title: Lifebuoy; title: Deck; title: Pequod meets the Rachel; title: Cabin; title: Hat; title: Pequod meets the Delight; title: Symphony; title: Chase first day; title: Chase second day; title: Chase third day; title: Epilogue.