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Chapter 55: Of the Monstrous Pictures of Whales.
November 26, 2025
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...
Chapter 54: The Town-Ho’s Story.
November 26, 2025
(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,...
Chapter 53: The Gam.
November 26, 2025
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...
Chapter 52: The Albatross.
November 26, 2025
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...
Chapter 51: The Spirit-Spout.
November 26, 2025
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;...
Chapter 50: Ahab’s Boat and Crew. Fedallah.
November 26, 2025
“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...
Chapter 49: The Hyena.
November 26, 2025
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...
Chapter 48: The First Lowering.
November 26, 2025
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...
Chapter 47: The Mat-Maker.
November 26, 2025
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...
Chapter 46: Surmises.
November 26, 2025
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...
Chapter 45: The Affidavit.
November 26, 2025
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...
Chapter 44: The Chart.
November 26, 2025
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...
Chapter 43: Hark!
November 26, 2025
“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-...
Chapter 42: The Whiteness of the Whale.
November 26, 2025
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...
Chapter 41: Moby Dick.
November 26, 2025
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...
Chapter 40: Midnight, Forecastle.
November 26, 2025
HARPOONEERS AND SAILORS. (Foresail rises and discovers the watch standing, lounging, leaning, and lying in various attitudes, all singing in chorus.)...
Chapter 39: First Night-Watch.
November 26, 2025
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...
Chapter 38: Dusk.
November 26, 2025
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...
Chapter 37: Sunset.
November 26, 2025
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...
Chapter 36: The Quarter-Deck.
November 26, 2025
(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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