Moby-Dick

or

The Whale

by

Herman Melville

Harper & Brothers, Publishers
Moby Dick book cover image

Table of Contents

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