Ahab's wife, or, The star-gazer
Subtitle: a novel
By: by Sena Jeter Naslund ; illustrations by Christopher Wormell.
Contributors: Melville, Herman, 1819-1891.
Edition: 1st Perennial ed.
Publisher: HarperCollins
Published: 2000
Place of publication: New York
Language: eng
Number of pages: 668
Subjects: Ahab, Captain (Fictitious character) -- Fiction.
Genres: Fiction.
Other titles: Star-gazer
Table of contents: title: Mild blue day; title: Dirge; title: Crossing; title: Reverie; title: Window; title: Steamboat; title: Paddlewheel; title: Island; title: Difficult farewell; title: Giant; title: Winter, summers; title: New Bedford; title: Boston; title: Petrel; title: Storm at night; title: Brightness of brightness; title: Rose; title: Our lady of the rocks; title: Return of the Petrel, with three letters; title: Comb; title: Fourth letter; title: Camel; title: Sea-Fancy inn; title: Sussex; title: Cabin boy; title: Companion; title: Captain Coffins' story-secondhand; title: Whaleboat by moonlight; title: Captain Morrell's story-thirdhand; title: Captain Ahab's story-my first acquaintance with him; title: Aloft; title: "Pardon me"; title: Reunion; title: Revelation; title: Sea storms; title: Frost wind; title: Collision; title: Course; title: Distance of the stars; title: Sentence; title: What do you fetch for your mouth?; title: Beginning of the debate; title: Father and son; title: Human animal; title: Alba Albatross; title: Ganglion; title: Postscript on the above; title: Soaring; title: Portrait of a virgin listening; title: Icarus; title: Test; title: Funeral; title: Contest; title: I am married; title: Aboard the Pequod; title: Hurricane house; title: Ahab's jottings; title: Kit's ruminations; title: Starbuck introduces himself; title: Ahab overheard; title: Letter to the lighthouse; title: Poor Kit's a-cold; title: Arctic; title: Ahab in his cabin; title: Aloft, the Pequod; title: Starbuck: ship's log; title: Starbuck communes with Mary, his wife; title: In the steward's pantry; title: Ahab's comfort; title: Nantucket-the faraway isle; title: Ahab prepares for the next voyage; title: Breakfast; title: Shame; title: B'twixt; title: Enter: the gaoler and the judge; title: On the moor; title: Slow spring; title: Churches; title: Baptismal; title: Fire; title: Ahab addresses the flames; title: Ahab's wife; title: Sky full of angels; title: Resurrection; title: Purpose of art; title: Office of a friend; title: Childhood as an island; title: World of Rebekkah Swain; title: Kentucky seasons; title: Winter tale; title: Burden; title: Lantern; title: Shakespeare and company; title: Guide; title: Getting started; title: Forest murmurs; title: In the Cupola; title: To summer; title: Wife; title: Mitchells; title: Vestal street; title: Ahab; title: From Cupola to Wharf; title: Idyll; title: Comet; title: Frannie's letter from an inland lighthouse; title: Angry letter from Aunt Agatha; title: Letter to an inland lighthouse; title: Minister in the woods; title: History of snow and restlessness; title: Altar rock; title: Mothering; title: Chowder swirls; title: Birthing room; title: Leg; title: Christmas Eve; title: Last glimpse of the Pequod: Christmas Day; title: Jeroboam returns; title: First part of Ahab's third voyage after his marriage; title: Moon watch; title: Letter from Susan; title: Samuel Enderby of London puts in for repairs at Nantucket; title: Distress of justice; title: To Siasconset; title: Hedge; title: Journey toward the starry sky, in present tense; title: "Sconset morning; title: More of morning: Tashtego's feather makes the letter S; title: Neighbor beyond the hedge; title: roar of guilt; title: Return of the Delight; title: Perseid; title: Woolsack; title: Letter from Margaret Fuller, from England; title: Letter from David Poland, Virginia; title: Letter to beloved kin; title: Letter from Margaret Fuller, from Italy; title: Judge's invitation; title: Mrs. Maynard's note; title: Preparations; title: Frannie; title: Liberty and the dolphins; title: Suitable marriage; title: What has proved to be a last visit; title: Song; title: Squeeze of the hand; title: Una preaches to the waves; title: Great fire: June 1846; title: Reflections on a wreck; title: During the pleasure party; title: Celestial; title: New friend; title: Sermon overheard; title: Plans; title: Recitation by beach fire; title: Letter from Susan, forwarded; title: Roof walk.