Moby Dick

Chapter 115: The Pequod Meets The Bachelor.

February 28, 2026

And jolly enough were the sights and the sounds that came bearing down before the wind, some few weeks after Ahab’s harpoon had been welded. It was a...

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Chapter 114: The Gilder.

February 28, 2026

Penetrating further and further into the heart of the Japanese cruising ground, the Pequod was soon all astir in the fishery. Often, in mild, pleasant...

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Chapter 113: The Forge.

February 28, 2026

With matted beard, and swathed in a bristling shark-skin apron, about mid-day, Perth was standing between his forge and anvil, the latter placed upon an...

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Chapter 112: The Blacksmith.

February 28, 2026

Availing himself of the mild, summer-cool weather that now reigned in these latitudes, and in preparation for the peculiarly active pursuits shortly to be...

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Chapter 111: The Pacific.

February 28, 2026

When gliding by the Bashee isles we emerged at last upon the great South Sea; were it not for other things, I could have greeted my dear Pacific with...

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Chapter 110: Queequeg in His Coffin.

February 28, 2026

Upon searching, it was found that the casks last struck into the hold were perfectly sound, and that the leak must be further off. So, it being calm weather,...

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Chapter 109: Ahab and Starbuck in the Cabin.

February 28, 2026

According to usage they were pumping the ship next morning; and lo! no inconsiderable oil came up with the water; the casks below must have sprung a bad...

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Chapter 108: Ahab and the Carpenter.

February 28, 2026

The Deck—First Night Watch. (Carpenter standing before his vice-bench, and by the light of two lanterns busily filing the ivory joist for the leg, which...

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Chapter 107: The Carpenter.

February 28, 2026

Seat thyself sultanically among the moons of Saturn, and take high abstracted man alone; and he seems a wonder, a grandeur, and a woe. But from the same...

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Chapter 106: Ahab’s Leg.

February 28, 2026

The precipitating manner in which Captain Ahab had quitted the Samuel Enderby of London, had not been unattended with some small violence to his own person....

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Chapter 105: Does the Whale’s Magnitude Diminish?—Will He Perish?

February 28, 2026

Inasmuch, then, as this Leviathan comes floundering down upon us from the head-waters of the Eternities, it may be fitly inquired, whether, in the long...

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Chapter 104: The Fossil Whale.

February 28, 2026

From his mighty bulk the whale affords a most congenial theme whereon to enlarge, amplify, and generally expatiate. Would you, you could not compress him. By...

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Chapter 103: Measurement of The Whale’s Skeleton.

February 28, 2026

In the first place, I wish to lay before you a particular, plain statement, touching the living bulk of this leviathan, whose skeleton we are briefly to...

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Chapter 102: A Bower in the Arsacides.

February 28, 2026

Hitherto, in descriptively treating of the Sperm Whale, I have chiefly dwelt upon the marvels of his outer aspect; or separately and in detail upon some few...

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Chapter 101: The Decanter.

February 28, 2026

Ere the English ship fades from sight, be it set down here, that she hailed from London, and was named after the late Samuel Enderby, merchant of that city,...

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Chapter 100: Leg and Arm.

February 28, 2026

The Pequod, of Nantucket, Meets the Samuel Enderby, of London. “Ship, ahoy! Hast seen the White Whale?” So cried Ahab, once more hailing a ship showing...

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Chapter 99: The Doubloon.

February 28, 2026

Ere now it has been related how Ahab was wont to pace his quarter-deck, taking regular turns at either limit, the binnacle and mainmast; but in the...

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Chapter 98: Stowing Down and Clearing Up.

February 28, 2026

Already has it been related how the great leviathan is afar off descried from the mast-head; how he is chased over the watery moors, and slaughtered in the...

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Chapter 97: The Lamp.

February 28, 2026

Had you descended from the Pequod’s try-works to the Pequod’s forecastle, where the off duty watch were sleeping, for one single moment you would have almost...

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Chapter 96: The Try-Works.

February 28, 2026

Besides her hoisted boats, an American whaler is outwardly distinguished by her try-works. She presents the curious anomaly of the most solid masonry joining...

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