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Moby-Dick or the Whale

By: Herman Melville

...Moby Dick or The Whale HERMAN MELVILLE 1851 IN TOKEN OF MY ADMIRATION FOR HIS GENIUS, This book is Inscribed TO NATHANIEL HAWTHO... ... 1 Loomings . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 15 2 The Carpet Bag . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 20 3 The... ...3 The Spouter Inn . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 24 4 The Counterpane . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 36 5 Br... .... . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 176 42 The Whiteness of the Whale . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 184 43 Hark! . . . . .... ... the Pacific Ocean. ” By Owen Chase of Nantucket, first mate of said vessel. New York. 1821. “A mariner sat on the shrouds one night, The wind was pipin... ...pen the haunts of the whale, the whalemen seem to have indirectly hit upon new clews to that same mystic North West Passage.” From “Something” unpubli... ...t does that indignity amount to, weighed, I mean, in the scales of the New Testament? Do you think the archangel Gabriel thinks 18 Chapter 1 Loomings... ...you get near twenty feet from the forehead do you come to the full cranial development. So that this whole enormous boneless mass is as one wad. Final... ...ip and Dough Boy made a match, like a black pony and a white one, of equal developments, though of dissimilar color, driven in one eccentric span. But...

...Excerpt: Etymology (SUPPLIED BY A LATE CONSUMPTIVE USHER TO A GRAMMAR SCHOOL.); The pale Usher --threadbare in coat, heart, body, and brain; I see him now. He was ever dusting his old lexicons and grammars, with a queer handkerchief, mockingly embellished with all the gay flags of all the known nations o...

...Table of Contents: Etymology, 1 -- Extracts, 3 -- 1 Loomings, 15 -- 2 The Carpet-Bag, 20 -- 3 The Spouter-Inn, 24 -- 4 The Counterpane, 36 -- 5 Breakfast, 40 -- 6 The Street, 42 -- 7 The Chapel, 45 -- 8 The Pulpit, 48 -- 9 The Serm...

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