Introduction xvi
Etymology xxvi
Extracts 1
Chapter 1 Loomings 17
Chapter 2 The Carpet-Bag 22
Chapter 3 The Spouter-Inn 26
Chapter 4 The Counterpane 41
Chapter 5 Breakfast 45
Chapter 6 The Street 47
Chapter 7 The Chapel 50
Chapter 8 The Pulpit 53
Chapter 9 The Sermon 56
Chapter 10 A Bosom Friend 65
Chapter 11 Nightgown 69
Chapter 12 Biographical 71
Chapter 13 Wheelbarrow 73
Chapter 14 Nantucket 78
Chapter 15 Chowder 80
Chapter 16 The Ship 83
Chapter 17 The Ramadan 97
Chapter 18 His Mark 103
Chapter 19 The Prophet 107
Chapter 20 All Astir 111
Chapter 21 Going Aboard 113
Chapter 22 Merry Christmas 117
Chapter 23 The Lee Shore 121
Chapter 24 The Advocate 122
Chapter 25 Postscript 127
Chapter 26 Knights and Squires 128
Chapter 27 Knights and Squires 131
Chapter 28 Ahab 136
Chapter 29 Enter Ahab; to Him, Stubb 139
Chapter 30 The Pipe 142
Chapter 31 Queen Mab 143
Chapter 32 Cetology 146
Chapter 33 The Specksynder 159
Chapter 34 The Cabin-Table 162
Chapter 35 The Mast-Head 168
Chapter 36 The Quarter-Deck, Ahab and All 174
Chapter 37 Sunset 182
Chapter 38 Dusk 184
Chapter 39 First Night-Watch 185
Chapter 40 Midnight, Forecastle 186
Chapter 41 Moby-Dick 193
Chapter 42 The Whiteness of the Whale 203
Chapter 43 Hark! 212
Chapter 44 The Chart 213
Chapter 45 The Affidavit 218
Chapter 46 Surmises 227
Chapter 47 The Mat-Maker 230
Chapter 48 The First Lowering 233
Chapter 49 The Hyena 243
Chapter 50 Ahab's Boat and Crew. Fedallah 245
Chapter 51 The Spirit-Spout 248
Chapter 52 The Albatross 252
Chapter 53 The Gam 254
Chapter 54 The Town-Ho's Story 259
Chapter 55 Of the Monstrous Pictures of Whales 279
Chapter 56 Of the Less Erroneous Pictures of Whales, etc. 284
Chapter 57 Of Whales in Paint; in Teeth; etc. 288
Chapter 58 Brit 290
Chapter 59 Squid 293
Chapter 60 The Line 296
Chapter 61 Stubb Kills a Whale 300
Chapter 62 The Dart 305
Chapter 63 The Crotch 306
Chapter 64 Stubb's Supper 308
Chapter 65 The Whale As a Dish 316
Chapter 66 The Shark Massacre 318
Chapter 67 Cutting In 320
Chapter 68 The Blanket 322
Chapter 69 The Funeral 325
Chapter 70 The Sphynx 327
Chapter 71 The Jeroboam's Story 329
Chapter 72 The Monkey-Rope 335
Chapter 73 Stubb and Flask Kill a Right Whale, etc. 340
Chapter 74 The Sperm Whale's Head-Contrasted View 345
Chapter 75 The Right Whale's Head-Contrasted View 350
Chapter 76 The Battering-Ram 353
Chapter 77 The Great Heidelburgh Tun 355
Chapter 78 Cistern and Buckets 357
Chapter 79 The Praire 361
Chapter 80 The Nut 364
Chapter 81 The Pequod Meets the Virgin 366
Chapter 82 The Honor and Glory of Whaling 378
Chapter 83 Jonah Historically Regarded 381
Chapter 84 Pitchpoling 383
Chapter 85 The Fountain 385
Chapter 86 The Tail 391
Chapter 87 The Grand Armada 395
Chapter 88 Schools and Schoolmasters 408
Chapter 89 Fast-Fish and Loose-Fish 411
Chapter 90 Heads or Tails 415
Chapter 91 The Pequod Meets the Rose-Bud 418
Chapter 92 Ambergris 425
Chapter 93 The Castaway 428
Chapter 94 A Squeeze of the Hand 432
Chapter 95 The Cassock 436
Chapter 96 The Try-Works 437
Chapter 97 The Lamp 442
Chapter 98 Stowing Down and Clearing Up 443
Chapter 99 The Doubloon 446
Chapter 100 The Pequod Meets the Samuel Enderby of London 452
Chapter 101 The Decanter 459
Chapter 102 A Bower in the Arsacides 464
Chapter 103 Measurement of the Whale's Skeleton 468
Chapter 104 The Fossil Whale 471
Chapter 105 Does the Whale's Magnitude Diminish? 475
Chapter 106 Ahab's Leg 479
Chapter 107 The Carpenter 482
Chapter 108 Ahab and the Carpenter 485
Chapter 109 Ahab and Starbuck in the Cabin 489
Chapter 110 Queequeg in His Coffin 492
Chapter 111 The Pacific 498
Chapter 112 The Blacksmith 499
Chapter 113 The Forge 502
Chapter 114 The Gilder 505
Chapter 115 The Pequod Meets the Bachelor 507
Chapter 116 The Dying Whale 510
Chapter 117 The Whale Watch 512
Chapter 118 The Quadrant 513
Chapter 119 The Candles 516
Chapter 120 The Deck 523
Chapter 121 Midnight-The Forecastle Bulwarks 524
Chapter 122 Midnight Aloft 526
Chapter 123 The Musket 526
Chapter 124 The Needle 530
Chapter 125 The Log and Line 533
Chapter 126 The Life-Buoy 536
Chapter 127 The Deck 540
Chapter 128 The Pequod Meets the Rachel 542
Chapter 129 The Cabin 546
Chapter 130 The Hat 548
Chapter 131 The Pequod Meets the Delight 552
Chapter 132 The Symphony 554
Chapter 133 The Chase-First Day 558
Chapter 134 The Chase-Second Day 567
Chapter 135 The Chase-Third Day 576
Epilogue 588
Criticism and Context
Herman Melville: A Biographical Note 590
Letters 597
Moby-Dick and Its Contemporary Reviews 607
Moby-Dick and Its Modern Critics 619
from Herman Melville
by Newton Arvin 619
"Seven Moby-Dicks"
by John Parke 629
"The Tragic Meaning of Moby-Dick"
by Henry Alonzo Myers 645
"Ishmael"
by R. E. Watters 649
from "Herman Melville's Moby-Dick"
by D. H. Lawrence 654
"The Fire Symbolism in Moby-Dick"
by Charles Child Walcutt 662
Recommended Reading 668