Moby Dick

Chapter 55: Of the Monstrous Pictures of Whales.

February 28, 2026

I shall ere long paint to you as well as one can without canvas, something like the true form of the whale as he actually appears to the eye of the whaleman...

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Chapter 54: The Town-Ho’s Story.

February 28, 2026

(As told at the Golden Inn.) The Cape of Good Hope, and all the watery region round about there, is much like some noted four corners of a great highway,...

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Chapter 53: The Gam.

February 28, 2026

The ostensible reason why Ahab did not go on board of the whaler we had spoken was this: the wind and sea betokened storms. But even had this not been the...

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Chapter 52: The Albatross.

February 28, 2026

South-eastward from the Cape, off the distant Crozetts, a good cruising ground for Right Whalemen, a sail loomed ahead, the Goney (Albatross) by name. As she...

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Chapter 51: The Spirit-Spout.

February 28, 2026

Days, weeks passed, and under easy sail, the ivory Pequod had slowly swept across four several cruising-grounds; that off the Azores; off the Cape de Verdes;...

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Chapter 50: Ahab’s Boat and Crew. Fedallah.

February 28, 2026

“Who would have thought it, Flask!” cried Stubb; “if I had but one leg you would not catch me in a boat, unless maybe to stop the plug-hole with my timber...

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Chapter 49: The Hyena.

February 28, 2026

There are certain queer times and occasions in this strange mixed affair we call life when a man takes this whole universe for a vast practical joke, though...

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Chapter 48: The First Lowering.

February 28, 2026

The phantoms, for so they then seemed, were flitting on the other side of the deck, and, with a noiseless celerity, were casting loose the tackles and bands...

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Chapter 47: The Mat-Maker.

February 28, 2026

It was a cloudy, sultry afternoon; the seamen were lazily lounging about the decks, or vacantly gazing over into the lead-coloured waters. Queequeg and I...

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Chapter 46: Surmises.

February 28, 2026

Though, consumed with the hot fire of his purpose, Ahab in all his thoughts and actions ever had in view the ultimate capture of Moby Dick; though he seemed...

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Chapter 45: The Affidavit.

February 28, 2026

So far as what there may be of a narrative in this book; and, indeed, as indirectly touching one or two very interesting and curious particulars in the...

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Chapter 44: The Chart.

February 28, 2026

Had you followed Captain Ahab down into his cabin after the squall that took place on the night succeeding that wild ratification of his purpose with his...

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Chapter 43: Hark!

February 28, 2026

“HIST! Did you hear that noise, Cabaco?” It was the middle-watch: a fair moonlight; the seamen were standing in a cordon, extending from one of the fresh-...

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Chapter 42: The Whiteness of the Whale.

February 28, 2026

What the white whale was to Ahab, has been hinted; what, at times, he was to me, as yet remains unsaid. Aside from those more obvious considerations touching...

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Chapter 41: Moby Dick.

February 28, 2026

I, Ishmael, was one of that crew; my shouts had gone up with the rest; my oath had been welded with theirs; and stronger I shouted, and more did I hammer and...

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Chapter 40: Midnight, Forecastle.

February 28, 2026

HARPOONEERS AND SAILORS. (Foresail rises and discovers the watch standing, lounging, leaning, and lying in various attitudes, all singing in chorus.)...

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Chapter 39: First Night-Watch.

February 28, 2026

Fore-Top. (Stubb solus, and mending a brace.) Ha! ha! ha! ha! hem! clear my throat!—I’ve been thinking over it ever since, and that ha, ha’s the final...

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Chapter 38: Dusk.

February 28, 2026

By the Mainmast; Starbuck leaning against it. My soul is more than matched; she’s overmanned; and by a madman! Insufferable sting, that sanity should ground...

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Chapter 37: Sunset.

February 28, 2026

The cabin; by the stern windows; Ahab sitting alone, and gazing out. I leave a white and turbid wake; pale waters, paler cheeks, where’er I sail. The envious...

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Chapter 36: The Quarter-Deck.

February 28, 2026

(Enter Ahab: Then, all.) It was not a great while after the affair of the pipe, that one morning shortly after breakfast, Ahab, as was his wont, ascended the...

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