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Moby-Dick
Herman Melville
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Captain Ahab lost his leg to a white whale. Now he'll chase it around the world, whatever it costs his crew. A teenage favorite of Steve Jobs and one of Obama's favorite novels.

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Loomings

The Carpet-Bag

The Spouter-Inn

The Counterpane

Breakfast

The Street

The Chapel

The Pulpit

The Sermon

A Bosom Friend

Nightgown

Biographical

Wheelbarrow

Nantucket

Chowder

The Ship

The Ramadan

His Mark

The Prophet

All Astir

Going Aboard

Merry Christmas

The Lee Shore

The Advocate

Postscript

Knights and Squires

Ahab

Enter Ahab; to Him, Stubb

The Pipe

Queen Mab

Cetology

The Specksnyder

The Cabin-Table

The Mast-Head

The Quarter-Deck

Sunset

Dusk

First Night-Watch

Midnight, Forecastle

Moby Dick

The Whiteness of the Whale

Hark!

The Chart

The Affidavit

Surmises

The Mat-Maker

The First Lowering

The Hyena

Ahab’s Boat and Crew. Fedallah

The Spirit-Spout

The Albatross

The Gam

The Town-Ho’s Story

Of the Monstrous Pictures of Whales

Of the Less Erroneous Pictures of Whales, and the True Pictures of Whaling Scenes

Of Whales in Paint; in Teeth; in Wood; in Sheet-Iron; in Stone; in Mountains; in Stars

Brit

Squid

The Line

Stubb Kills a Whale

The Dart

The Crotch

Stubb’s Supper

The Whale as a Dish

The Shark Massacre

Cutting In

The Blanket

The Funeral

The Sphynx

The Jeroboam’s Story

The Monkey-Rope

Stubb and Flask kill a Right Whale; and Then Have a Talk over Him

The Sperm Whale’s Head—Contrasted View

The Right Whale’s Head—Contrasted View

The Battering-Ram

The Great Heidelburgh Tun

Cistern and Buckets

The Prairie

The Nut

The Pequod Meets The Virgin

The Honor and Glory of Whaling

Jonah Historically Regarded

Pitchpoling

The Fountain

The Tail

The Grand Armada

Schools and Schoolmasters

Fast-Fish and Loose-Fish

Heads or Tails

The Pequod Meets The Rose-Bud

Ambergris

The Castaway

A Squeeze of the Hand

The Cassock

The Try-Works

The Lamp

Stowing Down and Clearing Up

The Doubloon

Leg and Arm

The Decanter

A Bower in the Arsacides

Measurement of The Whale’s Skeleton

The Fossil Whale

Does the Whale’s Magnitude Diminish?—Will He Perish?

Ahab’s Leg

The Carpenter

Ahab and the Carpenter

Ahab and Starbuck in the Cabin

Queequeg in His Coffin

The Pacific

The Blacksmith

The Forge

The Gilder

The Pequod Meets The Bachelor

The Dying Whale

The Whale Watch

The Quadrant

The Candles

The Deck Towards the End of the First Night Watch

Midnight.—The Forecastle Bulwarks

Midnight Aloft.—Thunder and Lightning

The Musket

The Needle

The Log and Line

The Life-Buoy

The Deck

The Pequod Meets The Rachel

The Cabin

The Hat

The Pequod Meets The Delight

The Symphony

The Chase—First Day

The Chase—Second Day

The Chase.—Third Day

Epilogue

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