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• ETYMOLOGY and EXTRACTS
  
  

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